Historian Quotes

449 quotes by 363 authors

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip. — Ambrose Bierce
The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose… — Buffalo Bill
Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his… — Dan Brown
Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them. — George W. Bush
God cannot alter the past, though historians can. — Samuel Butler
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary… — Michael N. Castle
I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery… — John Henrik Clarke
It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians. — Chuck Close
I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education. — Stephen Ambrose
As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves… — U Thant
I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the… — H.G. Wells
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing… — Lionel Trilling
They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and… — Lydia M. Child
The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true. — Ernest Renan
Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed. — Benjamin Franklin
In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that. — Mark Twain
Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir to wealth who… — Edward Kennedy
Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be… — Thomas Kuhn
Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive existences,… — Roderick Murchison

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