As a historian, I always think you know what a moment was 20 years later. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
“A good historian always provides for an exit in case of fire. "Probably," "allegedly," "it is possible...” — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“Much of my time is spent teaching the internet what to say to people.” — Steven Magee 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
... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh,… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Historians debate to this day whether Fidel Castro was a communist from the time he took power or only became one after… — Tom Gjelten 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
The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it… — Chris Killip 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
When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself.… — Ibn Hazm 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
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
I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the… — Honoré de Balzac 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
The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
One of the challenges in writing the script Call Me by Your Name was that I had to find something concrete for… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
The community itself didn't support the union. Now that's kind of interesting about [Barack] Obama, because Obama was supposedly a community organizer… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
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