Historian Quotes

449 Historian quotes by 349 unique authors

What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense, any more than… — Paul Johnson
The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned… — Michael Korda
I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially… — Eric Kandel
My big subject as a historian is how Americans divide themselves. What are the divisions that structure our political lives. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan… — Rick Perlstein
It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda. — John Hope Franklin
No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what… — James Harrington
Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true. — Samuel E. Morison
In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross… — Samuel E. Morison
Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject… — Samuel E. Morison
As a historian, I love every little detail, but whole long passages about wood paneling and journeys on horseback and every stop at every inn… — Deborah Harkness
I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with… — Khaled Hosseini
As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual… — Niall Ferguson
Actors yearn for the perfect director, athletes for the perfect coach, priests for the perfect pope, presidents for the perfect historian. Writers hunger for the… — Thomas Fleming
MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christians were thrown to the lions, so centuries earlier in Otumwee,… — Ambrose Bierce
Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that, because each one… — Christo
The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian. — B. H. Liddell Hart
The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. — Peter Conrad
I ain't no historian but I happen to savvy this incident. — Unknown Author
I didn't realize the president was such an historian. — Mark Shields
The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously magnified… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Im not a historian so dont bring up the past, its not my profession — HRT
The historian is a prophet facing backwards. — Friedrich Von Schlegel
Great abilites are not requisitefor an Historian; for in historical composition, all thegreatest powers of the humanmind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his… — Samuel Johnson
It is not generally remembered, if known, by thedescendants of the Pilgrims, that when their forefathers were spending their first memorable winter in the NewWorld,… — Henry David Thoreau

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