Quotes of: Historian Keyword

A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.

Niall Ferguson

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

The Historian

The historian is a prophet facing backwards.

Philosophical Fragments

I'm a historian in my own mind.

Quentin Tarantino

Historians are great gossips at a high level.

Marian Schlesinger

Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

Adam Hochschild

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Samuel Butler

I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.

Yara Shahidi

In any case, Cide Hamete Benengeli was a very careful historian, and very accurate in all things, as can be clearly seen in the details he relates to us, for although they are trivial and inconsequential, he does not attempt to pass over them in sile...

Don Quixote

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

The Historian

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.

Marc Bloch

The scientist seeks laws; the historian, causes; the artist, freedom.

Marty Rubin

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

Ferdinand Marcos

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

James Henry Breasted

I ain't no historian but I happen to savvy this incident.

Charles Marion Russell

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

Edmond de Goncourt

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.

James Anthony Froude

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

Goldwin Smith

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

Alexander Downer

The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization.

Historians In The Middle Ages

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

Stendhal