Quotes and Sayings About Historian
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Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.
-- Alexander Downer -
God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.
-- Antony Beevor -
I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.
-- Antony Beevor -
If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.
-- Beaumont Newhall -
A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.
-- C. V. Wedgwood -
There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
-- Chinua Achebe -
That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back and attempt to revise and rewrite history in their own image.
-- D. James Kennedy -
History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.
-- David Drake -
I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?
-- Donald Kagan -
The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
-- E. L. Doctorow -
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.
-- Edward Gibbon -
Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.
-- Edward Hallett Carr -
The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar.
-- F. F. Bruce -
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
-- Ferdinand Marcos -
No historian should be trusted implicitly.
-- George Kitson Clark -
fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
-- Gertrude Atherton -
Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.
-- Hilary Mantel -
I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it,
-- Jack Granatstein -
We are all historians in our small way.
-- Jeanette Winterson -
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
-- Josef Albers -
A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.
-- Karl Kraus -
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.
-- Karl Kraus -
What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.
-- Karl Kraus -
The historian is a prophet looking backward.
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.
-- Lee Hazlewood -
The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.
-- Lucian
