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Historian Quotes by Edward Gibbon
- The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed…
- I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride…
- The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.
- The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is…
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- Historian - a broad-gauge gossip. — Ambrose Bierce
- The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man,… — Buffalo Bill
- Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many… — Dan Brown
- Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them. — George W. Bush
- God cannot alter the past, though historians can. — Samuel Butler
- Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great… — Michael N. Castle
- I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not… — John Henrik Clarke
- It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the… — Chuck Close
- I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education. — Stephen Ambrose
- As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we… — U Thant
- I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth… — H.G. Wells