Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in… — Steven Runciman Copy Share Image
Historian Larry Hise notes in his book Pro-Slavery that ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America.' He… — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
I can see that you [Bruce Cole] are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
David Shi (historian of the simple life) describes the common denominator among the various approaches to simpler living as the understanding that… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree… — Elizabeth Neel Copy Share Image
If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the… — Sean Wilentz Copy Share Image
I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use… — Ioan Gruffudd Copy Share Image
Look, history is interesting. I read three books on George Washington last year. And my opinion is that if they're still analyzing… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
If you have things or are involved with things that turn on, it's going to have code. And there are so many… — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
A few hints as to the craft may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing! — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
You don't believe that the Earth is round only if you're an astronaut. You don't believe Napoleon existed only if you're a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing. — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
Since the death of Nikola Tesla in 1943, his life has deserved a worthy biography. Bernard Carlson has delivered that in Tesla:… — Robert Rosenberg Copy Share Image
To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Historians debate to this day whether Fidel Castro was a communist from the time he took power or only became one after… — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
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