“A good historian always provides for an exit in case of fire. "Probably," "allegedly," "it is possible...” — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I am not a qualified historian, but rather a teller of stories from history. — Princess Michael of Kent Copy Share Image
If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life. — Henri Pirenne Copy Share Image
I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a ufologist. I'm not someone who studies… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
I don't have the education of an art historian. I've certainly read about art and look at art and have educated myself… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. For historians, academics, writers and journalists to reflect great lives according to… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus,… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In “Working Ethics: William Beaumont, Alexis St. Martin, and Medical Research in Antebellum America,” historian Alexa Green explains the men’s relationship as… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I have not said your values are wrong. But neither are they right. They are simply judgments. Assessments. Decisions. For the most… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
It's funny how sometimes historians sneer at journalists, yet they depend on us in the future for the material that they mine.… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
I am provoked at the contempt which most historians show for humanity in general; one would think by them, that the whole… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a… — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Some European countries insist on saying that during World War II, Hitler burned millions of Jews and put them in concentration camps.… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as… — I. Bernard Cohen Copy Share Image
While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the… — Marie Taylor Collins Swabey Copy Share Image
Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Professor Smith has kindly submitted his book to me before publication. After reading it thoroughly and with intense interest I am glad… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“...history is inherently an eclectic discipline and the skills it requires are correspondingly diverse. And therein lie its strengths. Eclecticism is sometimes… — Ludmilla Jordanova Copy Share Image
