The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian,… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective. — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians. — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
Intellectuals love Jefferson and hate markets, and intellectuals write most of the books. Intellectuals often think that they should, for the benefit… — John Steele Gordon Copy Share Image
I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
It must be splendid to command millions of people in great national ventures, to lead a hundred thousand to victory in battle.… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted. — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Critical acumen is exerted in vain to uncover the past; the past cannot be presented; we cannot know what we are not.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena "signs," the sceptics "coincidence,"… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . .… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it. — John Cusack Copy Share Image
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