The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I wrote about World War II because I didn't understand it. I think that's the reason that historians are drawn to any… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
If I can educate a little, that's great; if I can cause somebody to go and seek out further information about Lincoln,… — Noah Van Sciver Copy Share Image
What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Great historians can make the discovery of the real story more exciting than the romantic myth. Stacy Schiff, a great historian as… — Evan Thomas Copy Share Image
The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
In the Making Of book ["300"] there's a guy named Victor Davis Hanson who is a a frickin genius. He's a Greek… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great… — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing. — Yara Shahidi Copy Share Image
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance. — George Sarton Copy Share Image
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Land surveyors can spend as much time reading legislation, bylaws, and engineering documents as we spend in front of an instrument in… — Mark Mason Copy Share Image
Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess — George Koltanowski Copy Share Image
I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians… — John Olsen Copy Share Image
No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Comedy historians take note: this Gottfried character doesn't have the best eye for detail - and, for a Jew, he doesn't have… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know historians aren't supposed to fall in love with their own theories, but I was head over heels about the notion… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
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