Quotes and Sayings About Historian

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.
-- Alexander Downer

#Writing #Goodness #Historian

God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Past #History #Historian

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.
-- Antony Beevor

#Understanding #Duty #Historian

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.
-- Antony Beevor

#Way #Doe #Historian

If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.
-- Beaumont Newhall

#Photography #Faithful #Historian

A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.
-- C. V. Wedgwood

#History #Doe #Historian

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

#Hunters #Lions #Historian

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

#Education #Atheism #Historian

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

#Decision #Worthy #Historian

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

#Different #Historian #Different Place

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
-- E. L. Doctorow

#Novelists #Historian

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.
-- Edward Gibbon

#Men #History #Historian

Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.
-- Edward Hallett Carr

#Facts #Study #Historian

The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar.
-- F. F. Bruce

#Unbiased #Christ #Historian

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

#Writing #Should #Historian

The historian amputates reality.
-- Gaetano Salvemini

#Reality #History #Historian

No historian should be trusted implicitly.
-- George Kitson Clark

#History #Should #Historian

fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
-- Gertrude Atherton

#Fiction #Historian

Study men, not historians.
-- Harry S. Truman

#Men #Study #Historian

Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.
-- Hilary Mantel

#Vices #Hindsight #Historian

I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it,
-- Jack Granatstein

#Thinking #Matter #Historian

We are all historians in our small way.
-- Jeanette Winterson

#Way #Historian

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
-- Josef Albers

#Art #Tradition #Historian

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.
-- Karl Kraus

#History #Historian #Backwards

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.
-- Karl Kraus

#Journalism #Prophet #Historian

What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.
-- Karl Kraus

#Writing #Enough #Historian

The historian is a prophet looking backward.
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#Literature #Prophet #Historian

History never repeats itself, historians do.
-- Lee Benson

#Historian

Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.
-- Lee Hazlewood

#Historian

The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.
-- Lucian

#Tasks #Historian