I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
A few hints as to the craft may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing! — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
“In the history of the world, we have left our footprints by our unique stories.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed. — Graham Stanton Copy Share Image
We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Americans are in vital need of the instruction that historians can provide. — Max Boot Copy Share Image
“As historians, we have to remind ourselves that yesterday was once tomorrow.” — Roger Moorhouse Copy Share Image
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The fall of Rome seemed unthinkable to people at the time but inevitable to historians reflecting upon it with the benefit of… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
“History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change… — Aberjhani 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
“It is a commonplace that good historians don’t judge statements from past times by the standards of their own.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies, but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them.” — Christopher Hill Copy Share Image
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
“That is why historians surprise me. They seem to have no talent for the likeliness of any situation. They see history like… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
As historians write more and more histories, it's a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy that other historians read their histories and then make… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
When historians write the last pages of their books, and the producers of history documentaries sit down to edit the final minutes… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I wrote about World War II because I didn't understand it. I think that's the reason that historians are drawn to any… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what… — Margaret Atwood 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“The good historian, then, must be thus described: he must be fearless, uncorrupted, free, the friend of truth and of liberty; one… — Lucian of Samosata Copy Share Image
“An ambitious freshman congresswoman demanded funding to put a public historian in every zip code in the country, a correction for what… — Danielle Evans Copy Share Image
