Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
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
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. — Lee Simonson 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
“Much of my time is spent teaching the internet what to say to people.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
As a historian, I always think you know what a moment was 20 years later. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work. That doesn't mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied. — Adele Logan Alexander Copy Share Image
The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the… — J. A. Spender Copy Share Image
Pirate historians have now discovered social history, the branch of history which in the last two decades or so has been the… — Peter Earle 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
Even well-known historians like Edward Gibbon are talking about how the soldiers of the 18th century were not able to do the… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a ufologist. I'm not someone who studies… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
As a historian I understand how histories are written. My enemies will write histories that dismiss me and prove I was unimportant.… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
There are very interesting books about these events, for instance one by a very well-known American historian named William R. Polk called… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all,… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred… — Graham T. Allison Copy Share Image
The early Christians' opponents all accepted that Jesus existed, taught, had disciples, worked miracles, and was put to death on a Roman… — Graham Stanton Copy Share Image
We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Historians will look back on this era and how the Internet changed what we value, what we consider art, the way we… — Debra Monroe 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
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
Ghostly legends dot the Prairie State from its big cities to its small towns. These stories make each community unique in a… — Jeff Belanger Copy Share Image
I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
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