Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos.
Thomas A. Bailey
The
middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will
chew our meat for us.
Michel de Montaigne
Unfortunately,
it is also true that the age's interests often color the past with unhistoric
hues.
Wendell H. Stephenson
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject
he may.
Walter Savage
LandorPerhaps nobody has changed the course of history as much as the
historians.
Franklin
P. Jones
A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.
Karl Kraus
There is nothing more dangerous than history used as a defense, or history used for preaching; history used as a tool is no longer history.
Marcel Trudel
Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.
John Terraine
History supplies little beyond a list of those who have accommodated themselves
with the property of others.
Voltaire
The
game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of
the majority in the middle.
Eric Hoffer
Every
true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the
present and as uncertain as the future.
George Macaulay Trevelyan
The
historian reports to us, not events themselves, but the impressions they have
made on him.
Heinrich von Sybel
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the
safest and the surest emancipation.
John Acton
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for
wrong.
John Acton
