Quotes Tagged With :historians

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions....

History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints....

Sandra L. West and Aberjhani have compiled an encyclopedia that makes an important contribution to our....

The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence.....

History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.

More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles bills and proclamations.

It follows that the one thing we should not do to the men and women of past time, and particularly if....

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Insurance companies sell what might happen tomorrow. Historians sell what certainly happened yesterday.....