Historian Quote by George Kitson Clark Download Open image “No historian should be trusted implicitly.” — George Kitson Clark ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Historian History Should Trust Trusted
Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons. — Lucien Febvre Copy Share Image
In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets,… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
