Curiosity Quote by Adele Logan Alexander

It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A historian is interested in the past because he is interested in life... a deeply felt need to assure the continuity of human life…

— Ralph Davis

History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.

— William L. Shirer

There's so much stuff that the normal person doesn't know that historians know.

— Jay Blades

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

— Antony Beevor

So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of…

— Nancy Horan

One of the great things about history is that it sort of isn't a done deal - ever. The historical texts and the historical…

— Mary Beard

I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably…

— Khaled Hosseini

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

— David Herbert Donald

I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place…

— Donald Kagan

The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive.…

— Donald Kagan