It has been said that the historian is the avenger, and that standing as a judge between the parties and rivalries and… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth. — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
Food historian Jessica B. Harris says African American cuisine is simply what black people ate. When I think about what my family… — Bryant Terry Copy Share Image
The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his… — Gaetano Salvemini Copy Share Image
Whenever you think of Lincoln as a historian, in his own mind, he becomes the Great Emancipator. This is his role in… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Alas! In vain historians pry and probe: The same wind blows, and in the same live robe Truth bends her head to… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
If you read Herodotus, the first Greek historian 2,500 years ago, he was talking about that - about people mixing with other… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
For if I should not believe all that is written by Historians, of the glorious acts of Alexander, or Caesar; I do… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which,… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must,… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
We're historians and above all want to write about what was. Our book doesn't deal with legacies. It also wasn't our goal… — Slawomir Cenckiewicz Copy Share Image
The community itself didn't support the union. Now that's kind of interesting about [Barack] Obama, because Obama was supposedly a community organizer… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Concerning alchemy it is more difficult to discover the actual state of things, in that the historians who specialise in this field… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters. — Dore Ashton Copy Share Image
