- Feed http://quotationsbook.com Quotations Book Search <![CDATA[Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19061/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19061/ <![CDATA[Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19066/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19066/ <![CDATA[The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19068/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19068/ <![CDATA[History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19073/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19073/ <![CDATA[One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19075/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19075/ <![CDATA[Might does not make right, it only makes history.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19077/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19077/ <![CDATA[Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19079/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19079/ <![CDATA[The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19081/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19081/ <![CDATA[The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19083/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19083/ <![CDATA[To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19085/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19085/