Historians Quotes

History is philosophy learned from examples.

I began with the desire to speak with the dead.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy and it always feels uncomfortable.

In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. History is rich knowledge.

After 15 years of work I have achieved as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower the unity of the German nation and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.

Any event once it has occurred can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

History is not another name for the past as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

Give the historians something to write about.

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.

War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.

The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.