Quotes of: Historian Keyword

I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Leo Tolstoy

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.

Robert Plant

We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.

Erik Erikson

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

Thomas Kuhn

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

Stephen Ambrose

I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am.

Rick Perlstein

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

David Herbert Donald

Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.

Aldrich Ames

One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But it is equally conceivable that the exchange would be useful for the beholders of art, for people who enjoy a...

Eric Kandel

I wanted to work in the arts. My dream come true would be to be an architectural historian and work with the royal palaces and all the fabulous art collections. But I'm not committed enough.

Jaye Davidson

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Lytton Strachey

Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared.

Stephen Kinzer

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

The Historian

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

The Historian

Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.

Ron Fournier

I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.

Steven Spielberg

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

Lion Feuchtwanger

Insurance companies sell what might happen tomorrow. Historians sell what certainly happened yesterday.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I do work half time as a historian of medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, and I started my career with work in the 19th century.

Alice Dreger

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

Erich Auerbach