Historian Quotes
One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
Francesco Guicciardini
Italian historian
I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
Kate Williams
British historian
History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
Donald Kagan
American historian
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Edward Gibbon
English essayist
If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
American historian
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Henry Adams
American historian
Personality is lower than partiality.
Goldwin Smith
Historian
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
Bernard Berenson
American art historian
The 'spirit of Davos' has definitely achieved a thing or two.
Hubert Burda
German publisher
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Henry Adams
American historian
By 1929, 5 percent of the population received one-third of the nation's income. The structural weaknesses of this economy plunged the nation into the Great Depression.
Heather Cox Richardson
American historian
When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those statistics of national and ethnic tragedy. But, as a result, there is a tendency to overlook the way the war changed even the survivors' lives in ways impossible to predict.
Antony Beevor
British military historian
Early youth is a baffling time.
Bruce Catton
American historian
Fight injustice, that our children might be blessed.
Rick Perlstein
American historian
Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't take an awful lot to unleash it.
Niall Ferguson
Scottish historian
As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost Cause' emphasis on the Confederacy. I used to play Civil War soldiers with my brothers as a child, and my older brother always insisted that he got to be Lee, and I got be Grant. I never knew that Grant won until quite some time had passed.
Drew Gilpin Faust
American historian
Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon.
Flavius Josephus
Roman–Jewish historian and military leader
Few Americans realize it, but the United Nations is driving to take control over the Internet. You remember, the folks who want a worldwide income tax and who put Syria and Iran on their Human Rights Committee.
Arthur L. Herman
American historian
The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.
Antony Beevor
British military historian
You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.
Michael Beschloss
American historian
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