"What distinguishes the historian from the collector of……" — Edward Hallett Carr
"What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization."
More Collector Quotes
- I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate. — Rowan Atkinson
- Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. — Walter Benjamin
- I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted… — Anthony Bourdain
- A real collector does not sell. — Eli Broad
- My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first… — Eli Broad
- I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want… — William Stafford
- While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you… — Ibn Arabi
- I have a three-piece suit. I’m an art collector. I have a funny accent. So I’m probably the killer. — Mads Mikkelsen
- I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody… — Marcel Duchamp
- I'm more a collector of identities and words that feel right to me. To me this is an inarguable point.… — Unknown Author
- Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire… — Robertson Davies
- Nobody can give you advice after you've been collecting for a while. If you don't enjoy making your own decisions,… — Charles Saatchi