Quotes Tagged With :historians

Indeed, a parallel history of Europe could be written which viewed family life and regular work as the....

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

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

Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time,....

History is so comprehensive and detailed. I couldn't be a history student. I thought there was a time....

In essence the renaissance is simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

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

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

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

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.