Historians Quotes

"The historian is a prophet looking backwards."

Friedrich Schlegel

"The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened."

Lucian

"Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything."

Nikita Khrushchev

"God cannot alter the past, though historians can."

Samuel Butler

"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."

Leo Tolstoy

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave."

E. M. Forster

"A historian ought to be exact, sincere, and impartial; free from passion, unbiased by interest, fear, resentment, or affection."

Miguel de Cervantes