Historian Quote by Peter Burke Download Open image “From time to time historians need to be shocked.” — Peter Burke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Historian History Needs Shocked Time
History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything. — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Real love is fighting like hell to hold on to every moment you have with her. It’s making a life together and making it… — Peter Burke Copy Share Image
There's always faith... Faith that whatever the other is doing, it's for a good reason. — Peter Burke Copy Share Image
Any shlub can pick up a girl at a bar. Want a challenge? Try keeping a beautiful woman happy for ten years running. — Peter Burke Copy Share Image
“Myths are not to be despised, but reading them literally is not to be recommended.” — Peter Burke 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
