Quotes Tagged With :historians

History is: Fables agreed upon - Voltaire The biography of a few stout and earnest persons - Ralph Waldo....

Whether we consider hip-hop as an evolved manifestation of the Harlem Renaissance or something completely....

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

The most striking difference between the ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied....

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

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

We should keep the Panama Canal. After all we stole it fair and square.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to....

I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

History is a vast early warning system.