The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race that… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
“For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian──ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it? — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I would have been an archaeologist or something, maybe a historian. There are a lot of things I would have liked to… — Chaka Khan Copy Share Image
Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the… — Spencer Abraham Copy Share Image
I'm not an historian but I can get interested-obsessively interested-with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often… — Louis Moreau Gottschalk Copy Share Image
It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
In contrast, Western historians, and those in South Korea, say the North attacked the South on June 25, 1950. Both sides agree… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
Somebody said, "Well, you're going to write your definitive book about your life, biography." No, I'm not. I haven't done that. I… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
The Reverend Douglas Wilson may not be a professional historian, as his detractors say, but he has a strong grasp of the… — Eugene Genovese Copy Share Image
As political theorist Michael Parenti points out, historians often overlook Fascism's economic agenda--the partnership between Big Capital and Big Government--in their analysis… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
A few hints as to literary craftsmanship may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing! — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian. — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
Environmental history... refer[s] to the past contact of man with his total habitat. . . . The environmental historian like the ecologist… — Roderick Nash Copy Share Image
Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors. — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
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