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Historians Quotes by Will Durant
- 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…
- Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record,…
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- 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
- 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
- They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have… — Lydia M. Child
- The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true. — Ernest Renan
- Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed. — Benjamin Franklin
- In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians… — Mark Twain
- Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir… — Edward Kennedy
- Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must,… — Thomas Kuhn
- In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that… — Peter Drucker
- Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough… — Simon Schama