Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
- Marshall McLuhanHistorians are prophets with their face turned backward.
- Friedrich von SchillerHistorians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species
- Konrad LorenzHistorians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
- Leo Nikolaevich TolstoyThe first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.
- Marcus Tullius CiceroThe great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously magnified all that conduced to her glory
- Robert Green Ingersoll