Educated Quote by John Keegan

What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.

— Karl Kraus

I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves.

— Herbert Butterfield

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

— Ferdinand Marcos

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

— Antony Beevor

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

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

— William L. Shirer

Let's give the historians something to write about

— Propertius

I am not a qualified historian, but rather a teller of stories from history.

— Princess Michael of Kent

“A historian ought to be exact, sincere and impartial; free from passion, unbiased by interest, fear, resentment or affection; and faithful to the truth,…

— Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and…

— Samuel Eliot Morison

Historians are a long way from being key workers. The best place for them is at home, reading their books and keeping out of…

— David Olusoga