Historian Quotes

449 Historian quotes by 349 unique authors

Comedy historians take note: this Gottfried character doesn't have the best eye for detail - and, for a Jew, he doesn't have the best eye… — Gilbert Gottfried
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. — Philip Guedalla
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted. — Oliver Cromwell
Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same… — Richard Dawkins
The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like. — E L Doctorow
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He… — E. M. Forster
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and… — Eric Hobsbawm
We are not merely historians but also and always citizens. — Tony Judt
Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're… — Michio Kaku
People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of… — Dean Kamen
Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social… — Aly Khan
The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous… — Tony Kushner
Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice. — Hilary Mantel
Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts. — Hilary Mantel
'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes. — Hilary Mantel
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made… — Marshall McLuhan
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. — H. L. Mencken
I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read other people's vampires.… — Stephenie Meyer
The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a… — Howard Nemerov
As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey… — Camille Paglia
I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian. — Robert Plant
I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and… — David Rockefeller
A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've… — Richard Russo
Every historian discloses a new horizon. — George Sand

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