I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a…

The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact.

— Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that might be…

— Kevin Young

“If a historian does not understand the bounds of the social space within which the events he is studying occurred, all he is doing…

— Eric John

Very few people know that there is a whole school of historians that have existed in the United States from the 1940s and the…

— Oliver Stone

But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault…

— Oliver Stone

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 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