The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often… — Louis Moreau Gottschalk Copy Share Image
“It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not… — Dougray Scott Copy Share Image
Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
“Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, far from being unreliable historians or merely clever inventors of myth and legend, reveal themselves to be… — Timothy J. Stoner Copy Share Image
Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to… — Roselee Goldberg Copy Share Image
The older I get the more I'm convinced that it's the purpose of politicians and journalists to say the world is very… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
“Modern history, both early and late, was made by Europeans, who "built a world around Europe", as historians "know", according to Braudel.… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
“A historian tries to understand what happened, why it happened, what was the context, who did what, and what assumptions led them… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the… — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share Image
Few American presidents are held in higher esteem than Thomas Jefferson. Though historians have scrutinized every phase of his long public career… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
“Many people believe that right and wrong are fixed absolutes. That is incorrect, they change over time. The job of the historian… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“where actual evidence had been a bit sparse he had, in the best traditions of the keen ethnic historian, inferred from revealed… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Historically marginalised people - by gender, race or nationality - aren't willing to be silent any longer on the crimes of the… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
“Historians are not by and large inclined to supernatural explanations, but they are addicted to a near equivalent - 'inevitability'.” — Eric Ives Copy Share Image
Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer… — Robert Rhodes James Copy Share Image
“The historians criticized a tendency, as they phrased it, to too rapid generalization. Other people blamed my method; and those who complimented… — André Gide Copy Share Image
Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time,… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
My basic notion regarding the matter of historical recognition is basically, it's a matter that should be left to the good hands… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“It was because historians made it sound so coherent, so purposeful, so complete. They'd take an entire century and impose a meaning… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Where I think historians can help preserve and actually restore democracy is to remind us of how we got it. — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
As one of the very few black historians who, from time to time, appears on TV, my daily life is a constant,… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Historians are presumed to be unable to "do psychology," which is "mystical" anyway, so they are forced to accept the most "rational"… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
“Even historians, who should know better, still seem addicted to the idea that nothing of any consequence occurred between the fall of… — James Hannam Copy Share Image
It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the… — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
“Historians rewrite the truth every day. What interests us is the truth that gets the reader to reach for his wallet” — Andreï Makine Copy Share Image
