Historian Quotes

449 Historian quotes by 349 unique authors

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write. — Alexander Downer
If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective. — David Herbert Donald
What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity. — Lion Feuchtwanger
It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie. — Ioan Gruffudd
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward. — Josef Albers
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story,… — Peter Ackroyd
Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign… — Spencer Abraham
There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of signposts… — Erwin Chargaff
Social historians of the future no doubt will be amused by the fact that we late-twentieth-century Americans found it acceptable to discuss publicly in detail… — Mary Ann Glendon
History is the invention of historians. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word. — Peter Gay
I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or… — Donald Kagan
Year after year, author/historian William Loren Katz continues to mine the lodestone of Black culture, and it is simply amazing how often he manages to… — Herb Boyd
There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. — Chinua Achebe
You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to… — Oliver Stone
That historian or scholar who delights in pointing out the weaknesses and frailties of present or past leaders destroys faith. A destroyer of faith —… — Boyd K. Packer
The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian. — James Henry Breasted
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian. — Philippa Gregory
No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a… — Henry Adams
It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the… — D. V. Ager
I'm not an historian but I can get interested-obsessively interested-with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past. — Penelope Lively
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. — Thomas Carlyle
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. — Margaret Thatcher
In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,. — David Dixon

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