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I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their… — Ibrahim Babangida
I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it, — Unknown Author
Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and beliefs that emerged… — Eric Schlosser
In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or poet. His name… — Bart D. Ehrman
But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general… — Bernice Johnson Reagon
It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not… — Orison Swett Marden
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the… — Barbara Tuchman
A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I think A journalist… — Gideon Haigh
When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive. — Unknown Author
When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the presence… — Geoffrey Elton
I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as… — Penelope Lively
. . . What role does historiography play in the way a society and culture "remembers" past events? Does the historian have a moral or… — Unknown Author
Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor… — Samuel Eliot Morison
I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past. — Ron Chernow
I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past — Eduardo Galeano
The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even… — Unknown Author
The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth. — Jules Michelet
There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form… — Glenn T. Seaborg
I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together. — John Olsen
Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, shes probably going to be looked at again because she feels far enough… — Jonathan Coe
There are some historians who say that democratic republics dont last more than 200 years. Well, weve got to show that you can last more… — Maurice Hinchey
Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and baffle historians. Harlan… — Janette Turner Hospital
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together. — Friedrich Engels
Let's give the historians something to write about — Propertius
I must say a few words about memory. It is full of holes. If you were to lay it out upon a table, it would… — David Ebershoff

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