It is almost a rule that the more complex a man is, the…

I called it 'Historian' because I feel like most of my creative efforts are efforts to capture something or to document it.

— Lucy Dacus

Virtually every subject is most effectively learned directly from the greatest thinkers, historians, artists, philosophers, scientists, prophets and their original works. Great works inspire…

— Oliver DeMille

When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a…

— Samuel Johnson

A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument…

— Richard Dawkins

In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.

— Thomas Piketty

We need the historian and philosopher to give us with trenchant pen, the story of our forefathers, and let our soul and body, with…

— Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

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 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

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

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