Historian Quote by Antony Beevor

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

— Kwasi Kwarteng

Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because…

— Hannah Arendt

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

— John Maynard Keynes

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

— Lionel Trilling

“Certainly every historian brings certain predilections to the study of history. But every historian also has the ethical obligation to suspend judgment until finding…

— George M. Dennison

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

— David Herbert Donald

There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that nobody living…

— David Grann

Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of the superiority…

— Leo Strauss

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

— Agnes Repplier

“Rooting arguments in evidence and respecting scholarly norms, historians must craft stories that shape the future as well as the past.”

— Michael J. Lansing

We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.

— Dale Jamieson

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

— Will Durant