Quotes Tagged With :historian

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the....

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the....

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Uninhibited, they wallowed with zest in the filth and mire of their political conceptions and needs,....

In the history of the world, we have left our footprints by our unique stories.

The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture to....

Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious....

[Tolstoy] denounced [many historians'] lamentable tendency to simplify. The experts stumble onto a battlefield,....

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