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
“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
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 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
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
“It is indeed the duty of historians to stress the contrast between the standards of the past and the standards of the… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it. — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
It is up to the historians, not politicians, to judge what happened in the past. Politicians look into the future. — Egemen Bag?s Copy Share Image
I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
It is curious that the two best-known British historians in the United States are Andrew Roberts and Niall Ferguson, each of whom… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Concerning alchemy it is more difficult to discover the actual state of things, in that the historians who specialise in this field… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to… — Miguel de Cervantes 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
A few hints as to literary craftsmanship may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing! — Samuel Eliot Morison 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
“Rooting arguments in evidence and respecting scholarly norms, historians must craft stories that shape the future as well as the past.” — Michael J. Lansing Copy Share Image
Historians spend their days engaged in the literally endless task of reshaping and expanding our view of the past, while statues are… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom,… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende. — Erich Auerbach 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
That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Even so, I think historians have more to offer than perspective on our present woes. The foreign country we call the past… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
But the BBC has made a big push to get women historians such as Amanda Vickery, Mary Beard and Bettany Hughes on… — Lucy Worsley 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
Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
The theory of permanent Muslim-Christian enmity, though it flourishes in the caves of Tora Bora and parts of the American academy, was… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself… — Geoffrey Elton Copy Share Image
When historians look back on our century, they may remember it most, not for space travel or the release of nuclear energy,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought… — Moderata Fonte 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
What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
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
I think certain periods of history don't get dealt with because I think historians, and it's their job, but they look back… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
“Historians start with Cleopatra and the pharaohs and comb through every year in human history ever since, looking in every corner of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
