“No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for "Before Coffee.” — Cherise Sinclair Copy Share Image
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed. — Graham Stanton Copy Share Image
We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Americans are in vital need of the instruction that historians can provide. — Max Boot Copy Share Image
A few hints as to the craft may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing! — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein could have provided irreplaceable help to future historians of the Iran/Iraq war, of the invasion of Kuwait, and of the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. For historians, academics, writers and journalists to reflect great lives according to… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
I'm not a historian. I know historians. I've worked with them. They have a really powerful way of looking at the world,… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“Popular opinion, journalistic cliché and misinformed historians notwithstanding, recent research has shown that the Middle Ages was a period of enormous advances… — James Hannam Copy Share Image
If we do not, as historians, write the history of great events as well as the small stories that make up the… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Historians have become far too precious. Their work has become ever more specialised and, as they steadily lose the context of their… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Fifty years would seem to be time enough to prepare a definitive history of the Second World War. In an age of… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
When historians write the last pages of their books, and the producers of history documentaries sit down to edit the final minutes… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
“As Peter Drucker said, “In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective,… — Greg McKeown Copy Share Image
“It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Recent fads in history and biography have increasingly exalted the aridity of chronology and fact, and have, with some valid reason, rejected… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
“There are no known non-biblical references to a historical Jesus by any historian or other writer of the time during and shortly… — D.M. Murdock Copy Share Image
“Indeed, future historians may well attribute our recent successes—toppling the two worst regimes in the Middle East, presiding over the birth of… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“It follows that the one thing we should not do to the men and women of past time, and particularly if they… — Lauro Martines Copy Share Image
For me, it is about using everything that is there and using the gaps in the record, figuring out why the gaps… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
“The good historian, then, must be thus described: he must be fearless, uncorrupted, free, the friend of truth and of liberty; one… — Lucian of Samosata Copy Share Image
I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“In the history of the world, we have left our footprints by our unique stories.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
