Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed. — Graham Stanton Copy Share Image
Historians often find important decisions few knew were important at the time. — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,. — David Dixon Copy Share Image
The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true. — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles. — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
If we do not, as historians, write the history of great events as well as the small stories that make up the… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“Popular opinion, journalistic cliché and misinformed historians notwithstanding, recent research has shown that the Middle Ages was a period of enormous advances… — James Hannam Copy Share Image
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. For historians, academics, writers and journalists to reflect great lives according to… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus,… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very… — Kenneth Baker Copy Share Image
The reason I put so much energy into it at the beginning was that while there were plenty of people looking after… — Kevin Brownlow Copy Share Image
Few American presidents are held in higher esteem than Thomas Jefferson. Though historians have scrutinized every phase of his long public career… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
“Modern history, both early and late, was made by Europeans, who "built a world around Europe", as historians "know", according to Braudel.… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
The older I get the more I'm convinced that it's the purpose of politicians and journalists to say the world is very… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
“A historian tries to understand what happened, why it happened, what was the context, who did what, and what assumptions led them… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, family history wasn't yet thought of a serious field for study. I was terrified of being laughed at by… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic.… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
“I know quite well why I became a historian… It was because dissension was frowned upon when I was a child: 'Don't… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“It follows that the one thing we should not do to the men and women of past time, and particularly if they… — Lauro Martines Copy Share Image
“Recent fads in history and biography have increasingly exalted the aridity of chronology and fact, and have, with some valid reason, rejected… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
“There are no known non-biblical references to a historical Jesus by any historian or other writer of the time during and shortly… — D.M. Murdock Copy Share Image
I may have been prejudiced against lawyer members of Congress, having run against one or two and having been threatened politically by… — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
“It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must,… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
I think certain periods of history don't get dealt with because I think historians, and it's their job, but they look back… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
“The best moments in life are not the kind many historians record.” — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another.” — Arnold Toynbee Copy Share Image
Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes. — Robert the Bruce Copy Share Image
