Leave history to historians.

I want my children to have access to something that looks beyond what I call the tyranny of now. You read the paper, everyone…

— Oliver Stone

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

— John Cusack

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

— Peter Greenaway

The beauty of history is that historians have the ability to find patterns, the big picture. When you make a movie, you try to…

— Oliver Stone

The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.

— Barbara Tuchman

We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.

— Erik Erikson

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what…

— John Dryden

Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to…

— G. M. Trevelyan

“So it appears to me, for when he could and should have wielded his pen to praise the virtues of so good a knight,…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“I know quite well why I became a historian… It was because dissension was frowned upon when I was a child: 'Don't argue, Claudia,'…

— Penelope Lively

In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have…

— Anonymous

“An ambitious freshman congresswoman demanded funding to put a public historian in every zip code in the country, a correction for what she called…

— Danielle Evans

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

— Alexander Downer

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

— Friedrich Engels