Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Sputnik quickly became one of the three great shocks to hit America - historians say the equal of Pearl Harbor or 9/11. — David Hoffman Copy Share Image
World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation. — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all… — Leo Tolstoy 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
“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
Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of… — David Christian 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
Americans are in vital need of the instruction that historians can provide. — Max Boot Copy Share Image
The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to… — Barton Gellman 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
The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time,… — Claire Tomalin 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
What I'm pushing for is an economic discipline that will be closer to other social sciences; in particular, we should be more… — Thomas Piketty 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
