The leading, the most respected Vietnam historian, military historian Bernard Fall -he was a hawk incidentally, but he cared for the Vietnamese… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
After two years of undergraduate study, it was clear that I was bored by the regime of problem-solving required by the Cambridge… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
If historians of philosophy are to be divided into those who focus on discontinuities and those who focus on continuities, I belong… — Gail Fine Copy Share Image
It is up to the historians, not politicians, to judge what happened in the past. Politicians look into the future. — Egemen Bag?s Copy Share Image
As the Prussian historian Treitschke later complained, the proponents of free trade in Hamburg had 'in German fashion made out of necessity… — Richard J. Evans Copy Share Image
I do work half time as a historian of medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, and I started my career… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Obama is not just a powerful speaker, but a thinker engaged with the ideas of his country and his age--this argument by… — Martha Minow Copy Share Image
As a historian, I love every little detail, but whole long passages about wood paneling and journeys on horseback and every stop… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Stacy Schiff is that rare combination: a first-rate historian and a brilliant storyteller. Using a wide range of sources, she spins straw… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play… — H. A. L. Fisher Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way. I question whether 6 million Jews actually died in Nazi death camps. There are two major sources… — David Duke Copy Share Image
God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images.… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian. — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
