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I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis — Antony Beevor
I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does. — Antony Beevor
For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
I'm not a historian, and I wouldn't want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy. Look at my… — Terry Deary
No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim… — Heinrich Schliemann
The fifth century BC historian Herodotus called Egypt ‘the gift of the Nile’. The Egyptians themselves went a lot further. They claimed that their sacred… — Unknown Author
History never repeats itself, historians do. — Lee Benson
Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz. — Kurt Vonnegut
It must be splendid to command millions of people in great national ventures, to lead a hundred thousand to victory in battle. But it seems… — Ludwig Boltzmann
I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports… — Joseph Addison
The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make… — Samuel Eliot Morison
As the NFF Historian, I'll have a new platform to indulge my passion for the most emotional, colorful and hysterical game ever developed by mankind… — Dan Jenkins
If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than… — Pierre Bayle
Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that. — Lee Hazlewood
Far too long, historians have accepted the claim that the conversion of the Emperor Constantine (ca. 285-337) caused the triumph of Christianity. To the contrary,… — Rodney Stark
The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to… — Barry S. Strauss
That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back and attempt to… — D. James Kennedy
Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time, provide theories and… — Lucy Powell
Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this,… — George Eliot
There is little history in the study of nature, and there is little nature in the study of history. I want to show how we… — Donald Worster
Environmental historians . . . insist that we have got to go . . . down to the earth itself as an agent and presence… — Donald Worster
Environmental history... refer[s] to the past contact of man with his total habitat. . . . The environmental historian like the ecologist [s]hould think in… — Roderick Nash
So many of the things we are doing right now as a country are things that lead to loss of a country. I leave you… — Louie Gohmert
The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
All revolutionary advances in science may consist less of sudden and dramatic revelations than a series of transformations, of which the revolutionary significance may not… — I. Bernard Cohen

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