Collectors Quote by Edward Hallett Carr

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

— Lion Feuchtwanger

A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of…

— Peter Medawar

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

— Thomas Hobbes

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

— William L. Shirer

History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the…

— Edward Hallett Carr

My basic notion regarding the matter of historical recognition is basically, it's a matter that should be left to the good hands of historians…

— Shinzo Abe

To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

People have different ways of interpreting history.

— Nate Silver

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

I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts,…

— Howard Zinn

Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples.

— Claire Tomalin

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very…

— Henry Louis Gates