Development Quote by Lion Feuchtwanger

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

— Karl Kraus

A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of…

— Peter Medawar

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

I called it 'Historian' because I feel like most of my creative efforts are efforts to capture something or to document it.

— Lucy Dacus

“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

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

— Edward Hallett Carr

History is the invention of historians.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You look at…

— Michael Pollan

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

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping…

— Steven Runciman

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and…

— Bill Nye