“Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another.” — Arnold Toynbee Copy Share Image
History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story. — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters. — Dore Ashton Copy Share Image
Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles. — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any. — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
“Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
Some historians trace the start of the War on Terror to November 4, 1979, the day the hostages were taken in Tehran. — Stephen Rodrick Copy Share Image
I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories that the philosophers and the historians of… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what… — Dougray Scott Copy Share Image
Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Too many so-called historians are really 'hysterians'; their thinking is more visceral than cerebral. When their duties as citizens clash with their… — Thomas A. Bailey Copy Share Image
As historians write more and more histories, it's a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy that other historians read their histories and then make… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The moment historians examine the past they risk changing it, by selectively re-arranging events, consciously or not, according to the judgment(s) of… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
What I'm pushing for is an economic discipline that will be closer to other social sciences; in particular, we should be more… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and,… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Somebody said, "Well, you're going to write your definitive book about your life, biography." No, I'm not. I haven't done that. I… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Historians who write about families are usually feminists who think in terms of gender relations. — Jane Ridley Copy Share Image
“The best moments in life are not the kind many historians record.” — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The fall of Rome seemed unthinkable to people at the time but inevitable to historians reflecting upon it with the benefit of… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
I have made a lot of tactical decisions that historians will look back and say: He shouldn't have done that. He shouldn't… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
“It is a commonplace that good historians don’t judge statements from past times by the standards of their own.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies, but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them.” — Christopher Hill Copy Share Image
At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
