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Historian Quotes by Samuel Eliot Morison
- Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor…
- The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make…
- A few hints as to literary craftsmanship may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing!
- Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and…
- An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and then…
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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