All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn't fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Seemingly random events and movements and trends gather power and momentum, unseen for long periods of time, and then bursting to the… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
When we see the human race, we must see before all else environment and food. Historians write about social change without taking… — Michio Kushi Copy Share Image
“It is not acceptable that election winners interpret history. History should be left to historians who have a difficult task. They should… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“What was, was. The past defines itself. Historians refuse to accept that definition & instead superimpose their analysis of the past through… — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
“Too often historians, beguiled by the theories of anthropologists and sociologists, fascinated by the possibilities of their theoretical categories, have forgotten that… — Margo Todd Copy Share Image
I cannot write about the past unless I go where history happened. Some make very good armchair historians, I'm not one of… — Bettany Hughes 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
“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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
“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
“The rate spread of EBOLA VIRUS in West Africa, is big tragedy. It is a fatal disease in the history of the… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians… — Walter Savage Landor 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
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
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
“Imagine, Dracula a pawn in the hands of the infidel. I wasted no time there-I learned everything I could about them, so… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
The main reason why historians have skated over the relationship of Victorian PMs with the press is that they haven't been looking… — Jane Ridley Copy Share Image
“for it is the business and duty of historians to be exact, truthful, and wholly free from passion, and neither interest nor… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
I know historians aren't supposed to fall in love with their own theories, but I was head over heels about the notion… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
“Culinary historians looking back at the first decades of the twenty-first century will be blessed with vast quantities of material to study,… — Laura Shapiro Copy Share Image
Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able… — Terry Pratchett 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
I believe there's no such thing as history; there's only historians, and in English, we've got this word 'his'tory, but what about… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
