(95 quotes found)
“Canceled checks will be to future historians and cultural anthropologists what the Dead Sea Scrolls and hieroglyphics are to us.”
Brent Staples
“Every historian discloses a new horizon”
George Sand
“It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not harder, than day laborers; and that the most obvious reason why they have been superior to other me”
Orison Swett Marden
“Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.”
Antoine Rivarol
“Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Study men, not historians.”
Harry S Truman
“In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it”
Lord Harlech
“What historians will look at is her contributions in these other things. Historians will understand and explore the full dimensions and not just the perfectly made up, dignified widow.”
Mary Frances Berry
“When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.”
Lee Iacocca
“My - well, I'm very fortunate. I married an art historian who, you know, with whom I travel, and we have a great time.”
Dan Brown
