This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history. — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
Had Adam tenderly reproved his wife, and endeavored to lead her to repentance instead of sharing in her guilt, I should be… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. — Lee Simonson Copy Share Image
“Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry that it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When historians look back on our century, they may remember it most, not for space travel or the release of nuclear energy,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus.… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian. — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets,… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
I'm called an oral historian, which is something of a joke. Oral history was here long before the pen, long before Gutenberg… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
If being an anti-art artist is difficult, being an anti-art art historian is a hard position indeed. His doctrinal revolutionism brings forth… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and,… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is little history in the study of nature, and there is little nature in the study of history. I want to… — Donald Worster Copy Share Image
[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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