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I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports… — Joseph Addison
Far too long, historians have accepted the claim that the conversion of the Emperor Constantine (ca. 285-337) caused the triumph of Christianity. To the contrary,… — Rodney Stark
That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back and attempt to… — D. James Kennedy
Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time, provide theories and… — Lucy Powell
Environmental historians . . . insist that we have got to go . . . down to the earth itself as an agent and presence… — Donald Worster
The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
All revolutionary advances in science may consist less of sudden and dramatic revelations than a series of transformations, of which the revolutionary significance may not… — I. Bernard Cohen
Truth is with the victors-who, as you know, also controls the historians. — Rolf Hochhuth
For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of… — Eric Foner
An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give… — Will Durant
I don't think that boxing historians have been able to find a case in which a great fighter, or a fighter presumed to be a… — Larry Merchant
You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go… — Dougray Scott
I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. The would be whatever they needed to be that… — Marilyn Johnson
A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because… — Richard Dawkins
The early Christians' opponents all accepted that Jesus existed, taught, had disciples, worked miracles, and was put to death on a Roman cross. As in… — Graham Stanton
Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed. — Graham Stanton
Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed and that the Gospels contain plenty of valuable evidence which has to be… — Graham Stanton
Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way. — Richard Ellmann
All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between… — J. A. Spender
The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us. — Michel de Montaigne
History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to… — G. M. Trevelyan
It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail… — Herbert J. Muller
The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do. — Louis Moreau Gottschalk
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
History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story. — Donald Kagan

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