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Historians have become far too precious. Their work has become ever more specialised and, as they steadily lose the context of their studies, they…

— David Starkey

History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts…

— Ridley Scott

History is the invention of historians.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

As historians write more and more histories, it's a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy that other historians read their histories and then make synthesis, and…

— Peter Morgan

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

— F. Sionil Jose

“Historians have often felt that the discovery of facts (even true ones) is only a preliminary to a higher activity, that of understanding the…

— Oswyn Murray

Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a bit too much because at the end…

— Thomas Piketty

The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.

— Ernest Renan

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

— Antonia Fraser

Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the…

— Barbara Tuchman

Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin