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David Irving is not just a Fascist historian . He is also a great historian of Fascism . — Christopher Hitchens

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors. — Antoine Rivarol

I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman. — Henry Adams

Let's give the historians something to write about — Propertius

The historian's rightful task is to distil experience as a medicinal warning for the future generations, not to distil a drug. — B.H. Liddell Hart

When the destiny of a nation is in a woman's bedroom, the best place for the historian is in the antechamber. - CHARLES-AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE — Eleanor Herman

Problems cannot all be solved, for, as they are solved, new aspects are continually revealed: the historian opens the way, he does not close it. — F. M. Powicke

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

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

A historian has many duties ... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore — Voltaire

The long historian of my country's woes. — Homer

History is too important to be left to the historians. — Robert Harris

[T]he historian and the detective have much in common. — Ralph Davis

The historian amputates reality. — Gaetano Salvemini

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.' — C.S. Lewis

[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present. — Fritz Stern

History is not the pure past; history is a past interpreted from the present of the historian. — Justo L. Gonzalez

A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it. — Mark Twain

The historian without his facts is rootless and futile; the facts without their historian are dead and meaningless. — E.H. Carr

The historian must have no country. - JOHN QUINCY ADAMS — James W. Loewen

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past — Eduardo Galeano

From time to time historians need to be shocked. — Peter Burke

A novelist is really nothing more than an historian of a people who have no history. — Federico Gamboa

History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light. — William L. Shirer

If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life. — Henri Pirenne

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization. — Edward Hallett Carr

I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian. — Hilary Mantel

The historian in me love to uncover things, and the mother in me hates to be lied to...[Why Dotsy investigates murder] — Maria Hudgins

Want and intelligence,' the historian had written, 'is a dangerous combination. — Becky Chambers

No historian should be trusted implicitly. — George Kitson Clark