Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Events become feelings, feelings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.” — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful. — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Historians often find important decisions few knew were important at the time. — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very… — Kenneth Baker Copy Share Image
In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe. — Robert Black Copy Share Image
To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly? — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
“For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography. They break the rules and admit the thing that is imagined, but is… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering. — David Grann Copy Share Image
Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus,… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Social media might one day offer a dazzling, and even overwhelming, array of source material for historians. — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of… — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Copy Share Image
If you want to avoid criticism, then you shouldn't be a historian, because historians are trying to understand and explain. If you're… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“Historians have often felt that the discovery of facts (even true ones) is only a preliminary to a higher activity, that of… — Oswyn Murray Copy Share Image
The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact.… — Polybius Copy Share Image
I want my children to have access to something that looks beyond what I call the tyranny of now. You read the… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“Reference to the deadness of the past is a way of staking a claim on it. But historians must be open, as… — Robert A. Orsi Copy Share Image
I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
“I know quite well why I became a historian… It was because dissension was frowned upon when I was a child: 'Don't… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“Ancient historians like Josephus the Jew, Berosus the Chaldean, Hieronymus the Egyptian, Mnaseas, and Nicolaus of Damascus (Josephus even mentions these last… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
“Historians usually focus their attention on the past of countries that still exist, writing hundreds and thousands of books on British history,… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
I may have been prejudiced against lawyer members of Congress, having run against one or two and having been threatened politically by… — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
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