Historian Quotes

449 Historian quotes by 349 unique authors

[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch. — Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind… — Allen Johnson
History, when rightly written, is but a record of providence; and he who would read history rightly, must read it with his eyes constantly fixed… — D. A. Fisher
The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his… — Walter Benjamin
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language. — Paul de Man
I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and… — Howard Hodgkin
Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a… — Mircea Eliade
When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this:… — Madeleine Albright
Ghostly legends dot the Prairie State from its big cities to its small towns. These stories make each community unique in a way that no… — Jeff Belanger
Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian. — Adam Hochschild
History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story. — Donald Kagan
If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life. — Henri Pirenne
The historian assesses that the investment of the wealthy classes in the Bank of England wedded them to the fate of the nation as a… — Walter Russell Mead
Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators… — Richard Perle
A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards. — Karl Kraus
Let's put it this way. I question whether 6 million Jews actually died in Nazi death camps. There are two major sources for Holocaust stories.… — David Duke
Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for… — Henry David Thoreau
In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than… — David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the… — E. M. Forster
A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to… — Isaac D'Israeli
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word;… — Samuel Johnson
Two main groups like to drop the readymade bomb—galleries and art historians. Galleries love to drop the Duchamp brand because dealers can try to convince… — Paddy Johnson
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when… — Victor Hugo
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors. — Antoine Rivarol
Artists are the emotional historians of the world. — Richard Blanco

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