Cerebral Quote by Thomas A. Bailey

Historians have become far too precious. Their work has become ever more specialised and, as they steadily lose the context of their studies, they…

— David Starkey

Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.

— Nikita Khrushchev

“Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal…

— George Orwell

“Historical figures lose their center when they become anxious over the outcome of their actions.”

— Huston Smith

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

— Agnes Repplier

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead.…

— E. M. Forster

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

— Nikita Khrushchev

"Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events.…

— Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.

— Henry James

“The problem that will doubtless interest future historians is not so much the presence, in the twentieth century, of mass political alienation, but the…

— Lawrence Goodwyn

History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.

— Ray Stevenson

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

— Antonia Fraser