Broader Quote by Claire Tomalin

Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is…

— Claire Tomalin

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping…

— Steven Runciman

The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know…

— John Keegan

To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy

— R. A. Salvatore

History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.

— William L. Shirer

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

— F. Sionil Jose

I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

— Edward Hallett Carr

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

— Lion Feuchtwanger

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it…

— Michel de Montaigne

Being a historian, if only for the day, teaches you useful things like judgment, and the ability to detect when someone is lying to…

— Lucy Worsley