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
There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true. — Samuel E. Morison Copy Share Image
When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian. — Shailer Mathews Copy Share Image
As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,. — David Dixon Copy Share Image
I believe that in years to come, historians will see the beginning of the 21st century as the ‘golden age’ of real… — David Lereah 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 does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact,… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I'm not an historian but I can get interested-obsessively interested-with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“The difference between a novelist and a historian is this: that the former tells lies deliberately and for the fun of it;… — Halldor Laxness Copy Share Image
Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed and that the Gospels contain plenty of valuable evidence which… — Graham Stanton Copy Share Image
An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus 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
Food historian Jessica B. Harris says African American cuisine is simply what black people ate. When I think about what my family… — Bryant Terry 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
Let's put it this way. I question whether 6 million Jews actually died in Nazi death camps. There are two major sources… — David Duke Copy Share Image
I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it.… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script,… — Geoffrey Nunberg Copy Share Image
As a historian, I love every little detail, but whole long passages about wood paneling and journeys on horseback and every stop… — Deborah Harkness 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
“The good historian, then, must be thus described: he must be fearless, uncorrupted, free, the friend of truth and of liberty; one… — Lucian of Samosata Copy Share Image
“History only became more challenging when it became less neat. Every time I pick up a book or document from the past,… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Let me name three of the people who influenced me, although it's definitely not a complete list. Ayesha Jalal, the formidable Pakistani-American… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
“History is, above all else, the creation and recording of that heritage; progress is its increasing abundance, preservation, transmission, and use. To… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
A historian should not be didactic-that is a word that makes my blood run cold. — Edmund Morgan Copy Share Image
When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive. — Luc Tuymans Copy Share Image
