Aware Quote by Norman Davies

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

— Kwasi Kwarteng

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

— Jay Blades

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

— Julian Barnes

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

— Nikita Khrushchev

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

— Lee Simonson

The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.

— Lucian

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Ron Chernow

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

— Idries Shah

Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.

— Lee Hazlewood

History is something that never happened told by someone who wasn't there.

— Ramon Gomez de la Serna

“There's a peculiar dichotomy in the nature of almost anyone who calls himself a historian. Such scholars all piously assure us that they're telling…

— David Eddings