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.
Insurance companies sell what might happen tomorrow. Historians sell what certainly happened yesterday.
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...
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
History is: Fables agreed upon - Voltaire The biography of a few stout and earnest persons - Ralph Waldo Emerson A vast Mississippi of falsehood - Matthew Arnold A confused heap of facts - Lord Cheste...
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not to write it.
History is so comprehensive and detailed. I couldn't be a history student. I thought there was a time when I couldn't be a history maker, because of my limited understanding of what that meant. Today,...
The world's history is constant like the laws of nature and simple like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
The past is a work of art free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy and it always feels uncomfortable.
History doesn't pass the dishes again.
History is the devil's scripture.
It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience, and of the scholar to think that experience can always be reduced to history. History and exp...
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.