Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda. — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
“True history being a mixture of all things, the true historian mingles in everything.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed. — Graham Stanton Copy Share Image
As a historian I refuse to recognize an epochal boundary before the fact. — Wladyslaw Bartoszewski Copy Share Image
The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages,… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
“A historian who works for a bank: That’s not the most likely background for someone who capers around the cosmos having adventures,… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The historian is looked upon as objective when he measures the past by the popular opinions of his own time, as subjective… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
We're not going to waste our valuable space or your precious energy by giving equal time to stories of tragedy, failure, and… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
We still have to realize that if you are say a historian of the Civil War, you don’t know anything special about… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Popularizing - much less venturing beyond one's secure turf - was frowned upon for many years. I think I probably internalized the… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry that it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
In contrast, Western historians, and those in South Korea, say the North attacked the South on June 25, 1950. Both sides agree… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
After two years of undergraduate study, it was clear that I was bored by the regime of problem-solving required by the Cambridge… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
“The lives of scientists, considered as Lives, almost always make dull reading. For one thing, the careers of the famous and the… — Peter B. Medawar Copy Share Image
the word 'justification' has itself had a chequered career over the course of many centuries of debate. As the major historian of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“History deals with situations and figures not imaginary but real. It demands therefore a combination of qualities unnecessary to the poet or… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
Historians constantly rewrite history, reinterpreting (reorganizing) the records of the past. So, too, when the brain's coherent responses become part of a… — Israel Rosenfield Copy Share Image
“If God wants something from me, he would tell me. He wouldn't leave someone else to do this, as if an infinite… — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
