quotes about Historian
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Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.
-- Alexander DownerSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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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 -
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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 -
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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 DrakeSource : David Drake (2009). “Patriots”, p.39, Baen Publishing Enterprises
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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. DoctorowSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.
-- Edward Gibbon -
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Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.
-- Edward Hallett CarrSource : Edward Hallett Carr (1965). “What is History?”
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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 MarcosSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.
-- Lee HazlewoodSource : "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.
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The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.
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The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid
-- LucianSource : Lucian of Samosata (2013). “Trips to the Moon”, p.27, Baen Publishing Enterprises
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The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.
-- Marc BlochSource : Marc Bloch (1992). “The Historian's Craft”, p.40, Manchester University Press
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History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.
-- Max Beerbohm -
A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.
-- Niall Ferguson -
Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.
-- Nikita Khrushchev -
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
-- Oliver Cromwell -
The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
-- Peter AckroydSource : Peter Ackroyd (2011). “Foundation: The History of England”, p.47, Pan Macmillan
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Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
-- Peter Gay -
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
-- Philip GuedallaSource : Supers and Supermen (1920) "Some Historians"
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An Engineer is no match for a Historian with his dander up!
-- Philip ReeveSource : Philip Reeve (2012). “Predator Cities #1: Mortal Engines”, p.217, Scholastic Inc.
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Let's give the historians something to write about
-- Propertius -
It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible.
-- Reza Aslan -
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.
-- Robert Black -
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I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.
-- Robert Plant -
We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
-- Sophie Swetchine -
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
-- Stendhal -
To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay -
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We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.
-- Tony Judt -
I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.
-- Robert Darnton -
As a historian I refuse to recognize an epochal boundary before the fact.
-- Wladyslaw Bartoszewski -
You are not just a photojournalist, you're a historian.
-- Bill Eppridge -
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When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.
-- Melvin B. TolsonSource : Melvin B. Tolson (1982). “Caviar and Cabbage”
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It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.
-- Beaumont NewhallSource : Beaumont Newhall (1984). “In plain sight: the photographs of Beaumont Newhall”
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From time to time historians need to be shocked.
-- Peter Burke -
To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?
-- Peter MorganSource : Source: deadline.com
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I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.
-- David Burnett -
Truth is with the victors-who, as you know, also controls the historians.
-- Rolf Hochhuth -
Women have their uses for historians.
-- Ronald SymeSource : Ronald Syme (1989). “The Augustan Aristocracy”, p.168, Oxford University Press
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Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.
-- Ronald WrightSource : Ronald Wright (2010). “A Short History Of Progress”, p.107, Canongate Books
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If historians are not skeptical, they are nothing.
-- Geoffrey Elton -
History does not have sides, although historians do.
-- Jay Nordlinger