You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not… — Dougray Scott Copy Share Image
Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Jesus existed, and those vocal persons who deny it do so not because they have considered the evidence with the dispassionate eye… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it. — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
So many of the things we are doing right now as a country are things that lead to loss of a country.… — Louie Gohmert Copy Share Image
This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The Rebecca Riots by David Williams is an unassuming book, but its significance is universal. The book and its author determined my… — Kenneth O. Morgan Copy Share Image
What I notice, as a historian reading stories about so-called nature miracles, the walking on the water, or the miraculous catch of… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched. — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
I must say a few words about memory. It is full of holes. If you were to lay it out upon a… — David Ebershoff Copy Share Image
The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
[talking about the Holocaust] 'But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit.… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Historians are presumed to be unable to "do psychology," which is "mystical" anyway, so they are forced to accept the most "rational"… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The spectator and historian of [Belisarius's] exploits has observed, that amidst the perils of war, he was daring without rashness, prudent without… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
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