The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Some European countries insist on saying that during World War II, Hitler burned millions of Jews and put them in concentration camps.… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
What the historian Elie Kedourie called "the Chatham House Version" - that toxic amalgam of smugness, moral relativism, and cherished feelings of… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
the word 'justification' has itself had a chequered career over the course of many centuries of debate. As the major historian of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian. — Shailer Mathews Copy Share Image
I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
The real point of me isn't that I'm good looking. It's that I'm clever. I've got a brain! I would rather be… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
I don't think that boxing historians have been able to find a case in which a great fighter, or a fighter presumed… — Larry Merchant Copy Share Image
When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself.… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived… — Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi Copy Share Image
The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true. — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
The historian Arthur Schlesinger has pointed out that people tend to get interested in politics again every 30 years. The universe moves… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
If Bob Dylan really is an historian in and of himself in his work, in his performances, he is also an historian… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
As Harvard historian of science Peter Galison has demonstrated, the universe of classified knowledge now far exceeds the universe of unclassified knowledge.… — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share Image
The lives of heroes have enriched history, and history has adorned the actions of heroes ; and thus I cannot say whether… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We are not philosophers, we are sovereigns. The rules that govern our behavior are not the rules for other men, and our… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
