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An Engineer is no match for a Historian with his dander up! — Philip Reeve
Study the historian before you begin to study the facts. — Edward Hallett Carr
History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's… — Edward Hallett Carr
The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines. — Marc Bloch
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry… — Marc Bloch
History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light. — William L. Shirer
A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible. — Niall Ferguson
So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is… — Philip Sidney
Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against… — Lion Feuchtwanger
To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende. — Erich Auerbach
A historian should not be didactic-that is a word that makes my blood run cold. — Edmund Morgan
The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination. — Gaetano Salvemini
The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture… — Geoffrey Nunberg
Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers. — Thomas Piketty
The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to the… — Gertrude Himmelfarb
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe. — Robert Black
Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was… — Aldrich Ames
When we see the human race, we must see before all else environment and food. Historians write about social change without taking these factors into… — Michio Kushi
The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid — Lucian
A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint. — Ambeth R. Ocampo
Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey. — Mason Cooley
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history thats least studied by historians is… — Tom Hayden
In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are only uncovered later,… — Kate Morton
But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really, at bottom, impracticable;… — David Hume
How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter… — William Davenant

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