The historian reports to us, not events themselves, but the impressions they have made on him. – Heinrich von Sybel

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesnt matter. – V. S. Naipaul

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. – George Washington Carver