Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
We have all the technology to record things in the streets. Now the historians cannot twist it or change it, because we… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves. — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For...… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I have a dreadful feeling in my bones that future historians may write of the May 2014 elections: "This was the wake-up… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
Let's say that history is what happened. The record of what happened is how each individual happens to see those events. They've… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I recall asking the late eminent liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger, in a public forum in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, if… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
To know John Kennedy, as I did, was to understand the true meaning of the word. He understood that courage is not… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way. — Richard Ellmann Copy Share Image
In a one-hour documentary, you can tell maybe ten stories. That's how the documentary is structured. I wrote to forty of the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I am a critic who is pulled toward history. But Bob Dylan himself is a great historian. He is an historian who… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines. — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
