Asks Quote by Donald Kagan

I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place…

— Donald Kagan

I am not a historian. I don't see what I do as being a rival to biography.

— Hilary Mantel

Let's give the historians something to write about

— Propertius

History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no horsing around.…

— David McCullough

I'm practically a historian.

— MC Ren

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

— Peter Greenaway

I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— William L. Shirer

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

— Gordon S. Wood

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 was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

— Frederik Pohl

I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me.

— Tom Mison