...history is, as R.G. Collingwood suggested, a…

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

Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are…

— Anonymous

The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to…

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I…

— Timothy Garton Ash

If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets,…

— Galileo Galilei

“The historian will tell you what happened, the novelist will tell you what it felt like.” E.L. Doctorow”

— Anonymous

All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone…

— C. S. Lewis

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians…

— Tom Hayden

The historian amputates reality.

— Gaetano Salvemini

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect…

— Goldwin Smith

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

— Karl Kraus

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

“military historian Richard Holmes.”

— Clare Wright

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains…

— James A. Garfield

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