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The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction. — Oscar Wilde
If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history. — Beaumont Newhall
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating… — Peter Ackroyd
Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing 'science' rather than… — Robert J. Samuelson
The choice is ours-yours and mine. We can stay with business as usual and preside over a global bubble economy that keeps expanding until it… — Lester R. Brown
We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of the road and… — Richard M. Nixon
Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians and so-called experts. — Julian Beever
America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others. — Bill Nye
I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw. And his… — Sacha Baron Cohen
I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever. — Peter Berg
As a historian I understand how histories are written. My enemies will write histories that dismiss me and prove I was unimportant. My friends will… — Newt Gingrich
The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain… — Henry Adams
A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians. — Henry Adams
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. — Edward Gibbon
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women. — Henry Adams
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized . So, as… — Henry A. Kissinger
I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more… — Doris Kearns Goodwin
As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it. — Doris Kearns Goodwin
So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop,… — A B Yehoshua
The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience. — Peter Ackroyd
When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena "signs," the sceptics "coincidence," and psychologists "concentrated… — Paulo Coelho
The historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen emphasis supports some… — Howard Zinn
Historians constantly rewrite history, reinterpreting (reorganizing) the records of the past. So, too, when the brain's coherent responses become part of a memory, they are… — Unknown Author
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. — Herodotus

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