“At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.”
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Source: Ideas and Events: Professing History
“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.”
Source: The Philosophy of History
Source: Henry viii
“The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.”
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: 1790
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
Source: The New History: Essays Illustrating the Modern Historical Outlook
“To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.”
“We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.”
“In a certain sense all men are historians.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle
“What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.”
Source: What is history?: the George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961
“History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.”
Source: Christian thought, its history and application
“The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.”
“One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.”
Source: I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century
“History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.”
“History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.”
“History: a collection of epitaphs.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard
Source: Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance
“History is not history unless it is the truth.”
Source: The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference
Source: How the Irish Saved Civilization
“History, facts and truth are all Divine Products, and must prevail.”
Source: Scotland & the Scottish People: An Address Delivered in the City of Memphis, Tennessee, on St. Andrew's-Day, 1875
“For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.”
“The past has always been the handmaid of authority.”
Source: The Death of the Past
“History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance.”
“My country has no history, only a past.”
Source: Between Tears and Laughter: Selected Poems
“It takes at least three trees to make a row, and it needs at least three facts to make a truth.”
“History teaches everything, even the future.”
Source: History of the French Revolution of 1848