“Give me a scholar, therefore, who is able to think and to write, to look with an eye of discernment into things,… — Lucian of Samosata Copy Share Image
In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and… — Samuel E. Morison Copy Share Image
I don't have the education of an art historian. I've certainly read about art and look at art and have educated myself… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
He is likely to remain the one historian of the Sierra; he imported into his view the imagination of the poet and… — Robert Underwood Johnson Copy Share Image
The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who… — Walter Millis Copy Share Image
I watched tapes and became a historian of the sport, and tried to combine certain elements and find things in the gym… — Holt McCallany Copy Share Image
Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“What is deemed as “his-story” is often determined by those who survived to write it. In other words, history is written by… — Thomas Jerome Baker Copy Share Image
I once interviewed David Herbert Donald, the Lincoln historian, and we talked about how one deals with the secondary sources and the… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly? — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial… — Alice Corbin Henderson Copy Share Image
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can… — Allen Johnson Copy Share Image
It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
A lot of [George Saunders] early stories now feel prophetic. Take the recent election [of Donald Trump]. Historians in 100 years might… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible. — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
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