“Events become feelings, feelings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.” — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“As historians, we have to remind ourselves that yesterday was once tomorrow.” — Roger Moorhouse Copy Share Image
“It really is brilliant news that historians can just never get things right.” — Keith Jenkins Copy Share Image
I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Americans are in vital need of the instruction that historians can provide. — Max Boot Copy Share Image
We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what… — Dougray Scott Copy Share Image
The beauty of history is that historians have the ability to find patterns, the big picture. When you make a movie, you… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a bit too much because at… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to… — Shunroku Hata Copy Share Image
“Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any. — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
My favorite thing is talking to people about history - that's what I like doing. The sort of history I do isn't… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Historians have become far too precious. Their work has become ever more specialised and, as they steadily lose the context of their… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Historians have often felt that the discovery of facts (even true ones) is only a preliminary to a higher activity, that of… — Oswyn Murray Copy Share Image
The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Museums and galleries do recruit art historians, but they are overwhelmingly white and middle class, or else from abroad. They understandably fret… — Munira Mirza 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
More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
The student of biology is often struck with the feeling that historians, when dealing with the rise and fall of nations, do… — Ronald Ross Copy Share Image
“Every scholarly history that was written before 1920 was written by a man who had been taught by a man, whose thesis… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Historians often minimize or discount the impact that any one individual can have on human destiny-and for good reason. Given the broad… — Kevin Fedarko Copy Share Image
“So it appears to me, for when he could and should have wielded his pen to praise the virtues of so good… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“As to the ancient historians, from Herodotus to Tacitus , we credit them as far as they relate things probable and credible,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Professional historians approach such stories with great caution, knowing there will certainly be many fake baubles in the pile. Some accounts will… — Richard Fidler Copy Share Image
There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
“Ancient historians like Josephus the Jew, Berosus the Chaldean, Hieronymus the Egyptian, Mnaseas, and Nicolaus of Damascus (Josephus even mentions these last… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
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