Top Historians Quotes

The rate spread of EBOLA VIRUS in West Africa, is big tragedy. It is a fatal disease in the history of the world. Intensive education (formal and informal approaches) of the citizens of African can he...

Give the historians something to write about.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

History is past politics and politics present history.

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.

where actual evidence had been a bit sparse he had, in the best traditions of the keen ethnic historian, inferred from revealed self-evident wisdom* *Made it upand extrapolated from associated sources...

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

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest—fractionally more brave, one might say—about that 'other' cleansing of the regions and peoples that...

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

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

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

Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century has produced an abunda...

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

I never realized that there was history close at hand beside my very own home. I did not realize that the old grave that stood among the brambles at the foot of our farm was history.

Imagine, Dracula a pawn in the hands of the infidel. I wasted no time there-I learned everything I could about them, so that I might surpass them all. That was when I vowed to make history, not to be...

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produ...

The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.