Careers Quote by Paul Johnson

Let's give the historians something to write about

— Propertius

A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to study the…

— Marston Bates

People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

My main ambition as a historian is to figure out what's really happening in the world, instead of the fictions that humans have been…

— Yuval Noah Harari

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor

Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too…

— Walter Savage Landor

History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no horsing around.…

— David McCullough

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor

I'm not a historian. I know historians. I've worked with them. They have a really powerful way of looking at the world, and I…

— Kevin Young

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his…

— Marc Bloch

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.

— Anonymous