Experts Quote by Shinzo Abe

Everyone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after is has happened; but only the wise man knows at the moment…

— Winston Churchill

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

— Edward Hallett Carr

At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a…

— Aberjhani

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

— Jay Blades

It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of…

— Benedetto Croce

It's important to interrogate history, it's important to document history, because as a society we need constant reminders of the things that we've done…

— Matana Roberts

“Even if published in written form, history, it is argued, is not embedded as a memory at an individual level: it has to be…

— Suzanne Keene

If you're playing a historical character that's in the public consciousness, then obviously you've got to make an effort to look like that person…

— Colm Meaney

It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.

— Warren Christopher

Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.

— Bruce Jackson

Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work. That doesn't mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.

— Adele Logan Alexander