Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for "Before Coffee.” — Cherise Sinclair Copy Share Image
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
It's an academic book, and it's discussed under academic criteria. German historians cultivate so-called objectivity. They persuade themselves that they can switch… — Gotz Aly Copy Share Image
In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
I have made a lot of tactical decisions that historians will look back and say: He shouldn't have done that. He shouldn't… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Historians, only things of weight, Results of persons, or affairs of State, Briefly, with truth and clearness should relate; Laconic shortness memory… — James R. Heath Copy Share Image
To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende. — Erich Auerbach Copy Share Image
Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
During part of 1941 and 1942, when the Luftwaffe was busy in Russia, the German radio regaled its home audience with stories… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
There are some historians who say that democratic republics dont last more than 200 years. Well, weve got to show that you… — Maurice Hinchey Copy Share Image
I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist -… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
After all, history is a type of fantasy. For all the primary source research, in the end, the past world the historian… — Ysabeau S. Wilce Copy Share Image
Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens… — Aly Khan Copy Share Image
John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Her nomination for vice president in 2008 represents the most desperate inclinations of the Republican Party. In two hundred years, I suspect… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Truth is with the victors-who, as you know, also controls the historians. — Rolf Hochhuth Copy Share Image
I am not a representative of anything. When art historians or critics or the public put somebody in a drawer like this,… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
