Historians Quote by Eric Ives

“The more we try to explain sensibily these phenomena of history, the more senseless and incomphrensible they become for us.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“historians need to treat a participant’s own explanation of events with a certain scepticism. It is often the statement made with an eye to…

— Julian Barnes

“Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies, but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them.”

— Christopher Hill

“a discussion about the miraculous quickly devolves to an argument about whether or not one is willing to consider any possibility whatsoever of the…

— Francis S. Collins

“Throughout history, it is often the ostensibly innocuous more so than any notable provenance that leads to the irreparable consequential.”

— Steve Sagarra

“Historical analysis, by its very nature, tends to render seemingly unrelated events into an orderly and purposeful narrative, often leading to explanations that present…

— Ralph Snyderman

“Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. The narrator must seek to imbue…

— Francis Parkman

“I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with…

— Sara Sheridan

“As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries of life and existence.”

— Lewis N. Roe

“For a rational, modern mind, talk of the supernatural can be disturbing—an embarrassment.”

— James Martin

“Rooting arguments in evidence and respecting scholarly norms, historians must craft stories that shape the future as well as the past.”

— Michael J. Lansing