Historians Quotes ( 1 - 6 of 6 )
Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections read more
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he read more
The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as read more
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
The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, read more
The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously magnified all that conduced to her glory
