“ An autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers. ”
- Barbara G. Harris- Copy
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“ Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
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“ Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. ”
- Herodotus- Copy
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“ Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. ”
- Lee Simonson- Copy
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“ A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Historians are prophets with their face turned backward. ”
- Johann Friedrich von Schiller- Copy
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“ Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. ”
- E. J. Hobsbawm- Copy
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“ Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species. ”
- Konrad Lorenz- Copy
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“ Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies. ”
- James A. Froude- Copy
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“ The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. ”
- Peter Conrad- Copy
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“ The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development. ”
- Aung San Suu Kyi- Copy
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“ To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind. ”
- Harold Nicolson- Copy
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“ HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. ”
- Edward Gibbon- Copy
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“ However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time. ”
- Peter Quennell- Copy
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“ More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
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“ People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today. ”
- Henry Ford- Copy
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“ Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ”
- H. G. Wells- Copy
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“ The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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