Is there any possibility of giving international air travel, which we all need and use and hate, a touch of glamour, or… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living… — David Christian Copy Share Image
“There was a great historian lost in Wolverstone. He had the right imagination that knows just how far it is safe to… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
I've said before that I am not a historian and that when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust,… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
We're talking about, essentially, the Roman historians, who wrote Cleopatra into the story mostly so that they could talk about the rise… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has lived Is an historian & an artifact, For they hold all their time within them.” — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
“In the history of the world, we have left our footprints by our unique stories.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the… — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share Image
In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“A historian ought to be exact, sincere and impartial; free from passion, unbiased by interest, fear, resentment or affection; and faithful to… — Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Historians evaluating George W. Bush's first term will focus on foreign policy and, most of all, 9/11. I think they will criticize… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
