What comes to your mind when you think of the word Transylvania, if you ponder it at all? What comes to my mind are mountains of savage beauty, ancient castles, werewolves, and witches - a land of magical obscurity. How, in short, am I to believe I will still be in Europe, on entering such a realm? I shall let you know if it's Europe or fairyland, when I get there. First, Snagov - I set out tomorrow.
Elizabeth KostovaTags: dracula carpathians historian transylvania
A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.
Laurel Thatcher UlrichTags: historian
The historian is a prophet looking backwards.
Friedrich SchlegelTags: history hindsight prophecy historian
It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.
Elizabeth KostovaTags: dark fiction horror dracula atmospheric historical vampire historian european moody vlad-the-impaler
For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian──ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that unattainable by the highest art.
Lytton StracheyStudy the historian before you begin to study the facts.
Edward Hallett CarrAt ten, I couldn't articulate much but I got the message: to be a true historian, you had to mourn amply and well. (spoken by narrator Ava Bigtree in Swamplandia!)
Karen RussellTags: historian mourn swamplandia
The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid
Lucian of SamosataTags: fear freedom history historian
Give me a scholar, therefore, who is able to think and to write, to look with an eye of discernment into things, and to do business himself, if called upon, who hath both civil and military knowledge; one, moreover, who has been in camps, and has seen armies in the field and out of it; knows the use of arms, and machines, and warlike engines of every kind; can tell what the front, and what the horn is, how the ranks are to be disposed, how the horse is to be directed, and from whence to advance or to retreat; one, in short, who does not stay at home and trust to the reports of others: but, above all, let him be of a noble and liberal mind; let him neither fear nor hope for anything; otherwise he will only resemble those unjust judges who determine from partiality or prejudice, and give sentence for hire: but, whatever the man is, as such let him be described.
Lucian of SamosataTags: history military historian reporting
When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.
C.L.R. JamesTags: history historian masses
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