The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“[T]he best historians...take a thorough knowledge of the evidence of their subject and combine it with a sharp intellect, the warmest understanding… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
My favorite thing is talking to people about history - that's what I like doing. The sort of history I do isn't… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
“Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any. — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
Some historians trace the start of the War on Terror to November 4, 1979, the day the hostages were taken in Tehran. — Stephen Rodrick Copy Share Image
Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of… — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Copy Share Image
One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
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
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
I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Fifty years would seem to be time enough to prepare a definitive history of the Second World War. In an age of… — Norman Davies 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
The beauty of history is that historians have the ability to find patterns, the big picture. When you make a movie, you… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to… — Shunroku Hata 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
You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what… — Dougray Scott Copy Share Image
“The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories that the philosophers and the historians of… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is… — Rick Perlstein 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
Pirate historians have now discovered social history, the branch of history which in the last two decades or so has been the… — Peter Earle Copy Share Image
All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the… — J. A. Spender Copy Share Image
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the… — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
Historians sometimes view presidents very differently from the way the public did at the time. Sometimes they don't. — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
The withdrawal of more than half a million Russian troops and dependents from Germany since 1991 is described by historians as 'the… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Insurance companies sell what might happen tomorrow. Historians sell what certainly happened yesterday.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Historians rewrite the truth every day. What interests us is the truth that gets the reader to reach for his wallet” — Andreï Makine Copy Share Image
America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any… — Bill Nye 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
As one of the very few black historians who, from time to time, appears on TV, my daily life is a constant,… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
“Even historians, who should know better, still seem addicted to the idea that nothing of any consequence occurred between the fall of… — James Hannam Copy Share Image
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