What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity. — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
A historian is interested in the past because he is interested in life... a deeply felt need to assure the continuity of… — Ralph Davis Copy Share Image
In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The way people really think is not adequately analyzed by the universal categories of logic. Between social history and formal analyses of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
I am not a historian. I don't see what I do as being a rival to biography. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I mean everybody knows there's something wrong with the world and if you read left wing politicians or deconstructionists or thoughtful historians… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to… — Roselee Goldberg Copy Share Image
Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm not an historian but I'll venture an opinion: Modern cosmology really began with Darwin and Wallace. Unlike anyone before them, they… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When historians get to write the truth about this completely unnecessary referendum [Brexit] they won't say it was a vote demanded by… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
Does it take a blanket presupposition for a historian to discount some miracle stories as legendary? No, because, as even Bultmann recognized,… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
IT is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American women were such… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today,… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009. — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
“History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any… — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
Most historians accept that Egypt was a cradle of civilization, and that many cultural idioms and traditions come from there. What has… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
