Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe. — Robert Black Copy Share Image
I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is partly illusion in that we remember things differently as we get older, etc. But that doesn't mean, when historians look… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Historians differ on when the consumer culture came to dominate American culture. Some say it was in the twenties, when advertising became… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I've been watching basketball for a long time, I'm a historian of the game. I don't know any other team that's gotten… — LeBron James Copy Share Image
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“When it is a question of ascertaining whether or not some human act has really taken place, [historians] cannot be too painstaking.… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls… — Lucian Copy Share Image
The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it… — Chris Killip Copy Share Image
An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind. — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
That historian or scholar who delights in pointing out the weaknesses and frailties of present or past leaders destroys faith. A destroyer… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits. . . . If ever any congregation of men could merit eternal… — John Adams Copy Share Image
What the art historians had forgotten is that in Chinese, Japanese, Persian, and Indian art, they never painted shadows. Why did they… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Though tax records are generally looked upon as a nuisance, the day may come when historians will realize that tax records tell… — Charles Adams Copy Share Image
I'm not a historian. I'm a politician. What is important for us is that the countries of the region and the people… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
“...history is, as R.G. Collingwood suggested, a re-enactment of the past in the mind of the historian...” — Jerome Buckley Copy Share Image
America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
