Believed Quote by Benjamin Franklin

I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what was not.

— Jonathon Keats

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

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

— Jay Blades

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

— Kwasi Kwarteng

No historian should be trusted implicitly.

— George Kitson Clark

In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by…

— Anonymous

The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

— Edward Gibbon

“There's a peculiar dichotomy in the nature of almost anyone who calls himself a historian. Such scholars all piously assure us that they're telling…

— David Eddings

“Facta! Yes, Facta ficta! - A historian has to do, not with what actually happened, but only with events supposed to have happened: for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.

— Earnest Hooton

A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.

— Sandi Toksvig