Careers Quote by Paul Johnson

“Good historians...have the future in their bones”

— Edward Hallett Carr

“It is a commonplace that good historians don’t judge statements from past times by the standards of their own.”

— Richard Dawkins

The reason I put so much energy into it at the beginning was that while there were plenty of people looking after the talkies,…

— Kevin Brownlow

I was taught that if you're going to study something, you must understand it deeply and be familiar with primary sources. But if you…

— Yuval Noah Harari

To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.

— Erich Auerbach

“In the history of the world, we have left our footprints by our unique stories.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

If we do not, as historians, write the history of great events as well as the small stories that make up the past, others…

— Margaret MacMillan

I believe there's no such thing as history; there's only historians, and in English, we've got this word 'his'tory, but what about her story?…

— Peter Greenaway

Good historians, I suspect, whether they think about it or not, have the future in their bones. Besides the question: Why? the historian also…

— Edward Hallett Carr

Is there any possibility of giving international air travel, which we all need and use and hate, a touch of glamour, or even of…

— Paul Johnson

Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way…

— Charles Kettering

Those in power write the history while those who suffer write the songs.

— Frank Harte