As a historian I refuse to recognize an epochal boundary before the fact. — Wladyslaw Bartoszewski 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
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
“True history being a mixture of all things, the true historian mingles in everything.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda. — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
His [Jesus'] historians, having brought him into the world in a supernatural manner, were obliged to take him out again in the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Comedy historians take note: this Gottfried character doesn't have the best eye for detail - and, for a Jew, he doesn't have… — Gilbert Gottfried 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
History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I haven't studied history - I couldn't give a discourse in medieval literature - but I am a personal historian, and I… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor… — Samuel E. Morison Copy Share Image
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great… — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
Somebody said, "Well, you're going to write your definitive book about your life, biography." No, I'm not. I haven't done that. I… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative… — Colm Toibin 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
Environmental history... refer[s] to the past contact of man with his total habitat. . . . The environmental historian like the ecologist… — Roderick Nash Copy Share Image
I realized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what… — Nancy Reagan Copy Share Image
I think, as a historian, what strikes one the most about this [Donald'd Trump] program is just simply its nationalism, with his… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
Two main groups like to drop the readymade bomb—galleries and art historians. Galleries love to drop the Duchamp brand because dealers can… — Paddy Johnson Copy Share Image
For if I should not believe all that is written by Historians, of the glorious acts of Alexander, or Caesar; I do… — Thomas Hobbes 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
I want my children to have access to something that looks beyond what I call the tyranny of now. You read the… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Historians will look back on this era and how the Internet changed what we value, what we consider art, the way we… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
The historian Arthur Schlesinger has pointed out that people tend to get interested in politics again every 30 years. The universe moves… — Marianne Williamson 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
The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
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