Historians Quote by Jay Blades

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is one thing about knowing history, and another in recreating it.

— Octavia Spencer

Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work. That doesn't mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.

— Adele Logan Alexander

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

— Benjamin Franklin

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

— Noam Chomsky

When you're part of history, you don't know it. You're just sort of living your life.

— Thomas Schlamme

The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know…

— John Keegan

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

— Ali Smith

I don't know much about history.

— Bob Mortimer

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

— Peter Greenaway

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

— William L. Shirer