Historian Quote by Niall Ferguson Download Open image “A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.” — Niall Ferguson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Historian History Remember Time
The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact. — Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi Copy Share Image
I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted to counter… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
“Keeping histories is as much about knowing what needs forgetting as what ought to be remembered.” — Leah Bobet Copy Share Image
To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
History becomes easier to remember once you start playing a significant part in it. — Christopher Abraham Copy Share Image
It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories. — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
“I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.” — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Consider this: the US economy created 2.4 million jobs in the three years beginning in June 2009. In the same period, 3.3 million Americans… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Is it better today to be in a network, which gives you influence, than in a hierarchy, which gives you power?” — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Ask me not, 'Are you rightwing,' but ask me 'Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?' Then, yeah,… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Many historians still tend to assume that the spread of an idea or an ideology is a function of its inherent content in relation… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“the twentieth century ran a series of experiments, imposing quite different institutions on two sets of Germans (in West and East), two sets of… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Historians are not scientists. They cannot (and should not even trying to) establish universal laws of social or political "physics" with reliable predictive powers.… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“One difficulty is that we cannot always reconstruct the past thoughts of these non-Western peoples, for not all of them existed in civilizations with… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely… — Niall Ferguson 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
