I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever. — Peter Berg Copy Share Image
The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I never critiqued anyone. I never review books. I've never felt qualified as a musician to say whether someone… — James McBride Copy Share Image
The only difference between the narrator of contemporary affairs and the ordinary historian is that moral judgments about the present provoke fiercer… — Geoffrey Barraclough Copy Share Image
I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college.… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
For the historian everything begins and ends with time, a mathematical, godlike time, a notion easily mocked, time external to men, 'exogenous,'… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
Some writers may toy with the fancy of a ‘Christ-myth,’ but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence.… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I'm not a historian, and I wouldn't want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy.… — Terry Deary Copy Share Image
The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I think the evidence is just so overwhelming that Jesus existed, that it's silly to talk about him not existing. I don't… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think there's no question that historians create; they would tell you that, I think. If I'm trying to imagine an imperial… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
