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I'm not a historian who thinks Confederate memorials should be boarded up.
— Douglas Brinkley
Elizabeth Kostova's 2005 blockbuster, The Historian,
— Deborah Harkness
The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.
— Jules Michelet
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
There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.
— Henry David Thoreau
The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.
— Walter Benjamin
The Canis Lupus, both wolf and man, were meant to be a family with one another. We gain strength through our bond with each other.
— Quinn Loftis
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
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
— Lucian Of Samosata
History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.
— Henry Adams
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
The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.
— Gaetano Salvemini
Computer scientists are the historians of computing.
— Gordon Bell
A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
— Francois Fenelon
I am contented, happy, and consequently a bad historian.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Any political historian can give innumerable examples of one percenters who have gone on to success, maybe even Bill Clinton himself?
— Lincoln Chafee
It is the historian's function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.
— Jacob Burckhardt
Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.
— Peter Greenaway
I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis
— Antony Beevor
I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.
— Howard Hodgkin
I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip.
— Bill Watterson
Memory is a poet, not an historian.
— Marie Howe
I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it,
— Jack Granatstein
I am not a properly trained historian. I am a lawyer by trade, and an inquisitive, practical woman by character.
— Liza Picard
The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
— E.L. Doctorow
The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.
— James Henry Breasted
Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
— Samuel E. Morison
The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves.
— Herbert Butterfield
The historian records, but the novelist creates.
— E. M. Forster
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.
— Philippa Gregory
Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.
— Mason Cooley
The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.
— Theodore Roosevelt
To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
I'm a historian in my own mind.
— Quentin Tarantino
I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
— Yara Shahidi
Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess
— George Koltanowski
Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.
— Richard Marius
The historian in me love to uncover things, and the mother in me hates to be lied to...[Why Dotsy investigates murder]
— Maria Hudgins
History is not the pure past; history is a past interpreted from the present of the historian.
— Justo L. Gonzalez
I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past
— Eduardo Galeano
History is too important to be left to the historians.
— Robert Harris
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
I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian.
— Hilary Mantel
We are all historians in our small way.
— Jeanette Winterson
No historian should be trusted implicitly.
— George Kitson Clark
From time to time historians need to be shocked.
— Peter Burke
What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.
— Edward Hallett Carr
The historian must have no country. - JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
— James W. Loewen
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The historian amputates reality.
— Gaetano Salvemini
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[T]he historian and the detective have much in common.
— Ralph Davis
Those who read the fiction assume that, because I'm also a historian, I know what I'm talking about.
— Saul David
With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.
— Kenneth M. Stampp
To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy
— R.A. Salvatore
The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.
— Howard Nemerov
The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact.
— Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.
— Mike Tyson
An Engineer is no match for a Historian with his dander up!
— Philip Reeve
What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.
— Barbara Tuchman
The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.
— Agatha Christie
My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.
— Deborah Harkness
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
— Lee Simonson
For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.
— Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
I watched tapes and became a historian of the sport, and tried to combine certain elements and find things in the gym and saw what worked for me.
— Holt McCallany
Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
— Adam Hochschild
History is the invention of historians.
— Napoleon Bonaparte