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
“Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another.” — Arnold Toynbee Copy Share Image
We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians. — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything. — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
“Historians pick and choose and every one of them picks and chooses the same thing.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009. — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think what we should do as historians is understand. And we can have our own views about how things turned out,… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Although this should not be so, historians reconsider presidencies based on how the presidents conduct themselves after leaving office. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
“…historians will say 'We have a few documents to show how the common people lived at this time. Records lead us to… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read… — G. M. Trevelyan 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
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
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Somebody said, "Well, you're going to write your definitive book about your life, biography." No, I'm not. I haven't done that. I… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
“Trying to look at the whole of the past is, it seems to me, like using a map of the world. No… — David Christian Copy Share Image
Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has… — Isabel Allende 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
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
“Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
For me, it is about using everything that is there and using the gaps in the record, figuring out why the gaps… — Hilary Mantel 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
“Indeed, future historians may well attribute our recent successes—toppling the two worst regimes in the Middle East, presiding over the birth of… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Historians who write about families are usually feminists who think in terms of gender relations. — Jane Ridley Copy Share Image
“The best moments in life are not the kind many historians record.” — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles. — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story. — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
