“Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, far from being unreliable historians or merely clever inventors of myth and legend, reveal themselves to be… — Timothy J. Stoner 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
Sputnik quickly became one of the three great shocks to hit America - historians say the equal of Pearl Harbor or 9/11. — David Hoffman Copy Share Image
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. — Horace Walpole 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
Historians are a long way from being key workers. The best place for them is at home, reading their books and keeping… — David Olusoga 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 need to treat a participant’s own explanation of events with a certain scepticism. It is often the statement made with an… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Though historians occasionally try their hand at prophecy (without notable success), the study of history aims above all to make us aware… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough… — Simon Schama 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
What does anyone really know about the impetus to go to war? And so much is uncovered in hindsight. And there are… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
We're historians and above all want to write about what was. Our book doesn't deal with legacies. It also wasn't our goal… — Slawomir Cenckiewicz Copy Share Image
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
There are a number of World War II historians I admire: Cornelius Ryan, Mark Stoler, Antony Beevor, to name a few. As… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
Where I think historians can help preserve and actually restore democracy is to remind us of how we got it. — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
My basic notion regarding the matter of historical recognition is basically, it's a matter that should be left to the good hands… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
“It was because historians made it sound so coherent, so purposeful, so complete. They'd take an entire century and impose a meaning… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer… — Robert Rhodes James Copy Share Image
Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time,… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“The historians criticized a tendency, as they phrased it, to too rapid generalization. Other people blamed my method; and those who complimented… — André Gide Copy Share Image
Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
“Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“Historians are not by and large inclined to supernatural explanations, but they are addicted to a near equivalent - 'inevitability'.” — Eric Ives Copy Share Image
I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
“Commanders and historians are the people who discuss wars; I was in the infantry, and most of the time I did not… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Most young men and women (...) grow up in a sort of permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past… — Eric Hobsbawm 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
“Historians are not scientists. They cannot (and should not even trying to) establish universal laws of social or political "physics" with reliable… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society.… — Tansy Rayner Roberts Copy Share Image
Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time,… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
Historians will look back and say, 'Foreign policy in the Ford presidency was very much dominated by Kissinger, with a kind of… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
