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I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

— Ron Chernow

Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything.

— Nikita Khrushchev

Historians have become far too precious. Their work has become ever more specialised and, as they steadily lose the context of their studies, they…

— David Starkey

“most historical relationships are ironical in character, or, to put it differently, that the course of history has little to do with the intrinsic…

— Peter L. Berger

Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Recent fads in history and biography have increasingly exalted the aridity of chronology and fact, and have, with some valid reason, rejected romanticizing and…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.

— Sandi Toksvig

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

— Benjamin Franklin

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

— Antony Beevor

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's so much stuff that the normal person doesn't know that historians know.

— Jay Blades