We need the historian and philosopher to give us with trenchant pen, the story of our forefathers, and let our soul and… — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Copy Share Image
Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“As an American historian, I am required to keep an accurate and truthful historical record.” — Steven Magee 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
Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed and that the Gospels contain plenty of valuable evidence which… — Graham Stanton Copy Share Image
What of the Exodus? That too, is a wonderful story, but from the viewpoint of an historian, it is - to use… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“...history is inherently an eclectic discipline and the skills it requires are correspondingly diverse. And therein lie its strengths. Eclecticism is sometimes… — Ludmilla Jordanova Copy Share Image
“At ten, I couldn't articulate much but I got the message: to be a true historian, you had to mourn amply and… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“A historian who works for a bank: That’s not the most likely background for someone who capers around the cosmos having adventures,… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Oh my research. Well, I got an English Degree. And I got that degree in a certain time/at a certain place. If… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience. — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,. — David Dixon Copy Share Image
The student of biology is often struck with the feeling that historians, when dealing with the rise and fall of nations, do… — Ronald Ross Copy Share Image
Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians… — Julian Beever Copy Share Image
It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Year after year, author/historian William Loren Katz continues to mine the lodestone of Black culture, and it is simply amazing how often… — Herb Boyd Copy Share Image
I was at one point thinking about being an art historian, when I was in school. And not being an artist, but… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
The present educational establishment, to cite just one group, has been obscuring the past so that our children have no way of… — Gary DeMar Copy Share Image
Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
