Historian Quotes
449 quotes by 363 authors
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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
— Ambrose Bierce
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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
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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
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Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
— George W. Bush
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
— Samuel Butler
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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
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I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.
— Ernest Renan
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Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.
— Benjamin Franklin
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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
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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
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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
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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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