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Truth is with the victors-who, as you know, also controls the historians. — Rolf Hochhuth
The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves. — Herbert Butterfield
The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of… — James Joll
For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of… — Eric Foner
Memory is a poet, not an historian. — Marie Howe
The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar. — F. F. Bruce
Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be… — Oscar Wilde
An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give… — Will Durant
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks… — C.S. Lewis
I don't think that boxing historians have been able to find a case in which a great fighter, or a fighter presumed to be a… — Larry Merchant
You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go… — Dougray Scott
I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. The would be whatever they needed to be that… — Marilyn Johnson
A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because… — Richard Dawkins
It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for… — Winston Churchill
The early Christians' opponents all accepted that Jesus existed, taught, had disciples, worked miracles, and was put to death on a Roman cross. As in… — Graham Stanton
Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed. — Graham Stanton
Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed and that the Gospels contain plenty of valuable evidence which has to be… — Graham Stanton
I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life - her myths, her superstitions, her prayers, the contents… — August Wilson
Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way. — Richard Ellmann
All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between… — J. A. Spender
The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us. — Michel de Montaigne
[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present. — Fritz Stern
History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to… — G. M. Trevelyan
It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail… — Herbert J. Muller
The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do. — Louis Moreau Gottschalk

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