When you are an historian, there's probably nothing that matters more than to be recognized by your colleagues in your own profession.… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. — Peter Conrad Copy Share Image
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh,… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that,… — Christo Copy Share Image
Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive. — Luc Tuymans Copy Share Image
A historian should not be didactic-that is a word that makes my blood run cold. — Edmund Morgan Copy Share Image
The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
The enjoyments of elegant life you early chose to abandon, preferring to wander for many successive years over the rudest portions of… — John Jeremiah Bigsby Copy Share Image
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
You know the old saying: "History is written by the winners. And also, the team of hand-picked historians that the winner keeps… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any. — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
What kinds of problems, and what kinds of meanings, happen in the paint? Or as one historian puts it, 'What is thinking… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
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