The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case. (Howard Nemerov)

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

Howard Nemerov

Related topics

case historian nothing responsible facts

Related quotes

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong. View quote
Graham Greene
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts. View quote
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom elsewhere they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer nonsense. View quote
Aldous Huxley
In times like these men should utter nothing for which they would not be willingly responsible through time and in eternity. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures. View quote
Sydney Smith