You know historians - can't leave a puzzle alone

I'm not a historian. I know historians. I've worked with them. They have a really powerful way of looking at the world, and I…

— Kevin Young

There's so much stuff that the normal person doesn't know that historians know.

— Jay Blades

So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of…

— Nancy Horan

Is there any possibility of giving international air travel, which we all need and use and hate, a touch of glamour, or even of…

— Paul Johnson

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

When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on…

— Diana Gabaldon

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

“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

The simplest things to see are the things we are most blind to.

— Milliton MUNNEY

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