“Historians relate, not so much what is done, as what they would have believed.”
Benjamin Franklin
“History repeats itself; historians repeat each other”
Phillip Guedala
“Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter”
African Proverb
“Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.”
Oscar Wilde
“Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.”
George W. Bush
“I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.”
Albert Camus
