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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

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

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

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

A historian should not be didactic-that is a word that makes my blood run cold. — Edmund Morgan

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 line between patriot and terrorist is drawn by the historian. — Tit Elingtin

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

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history. — Oliver Stone

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

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

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

Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read. — Peter Greenaway

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

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. — Herodotus

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

The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things. — James Joll

I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts. — Henry Adams

History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction. — A.E. Samaan

A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible. — Niall Ferguson

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

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

I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip. — Bill Watterson

As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian. — Hugh Blair

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

These exchanges are reported without comment by the East Roman historian Theophylact Simocatta (charmingly, his surname means 'the one-eyed cat'). — Peter Heather

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

America had shifted from what the influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a Culture of Character to a Culture of Personality — Susan Cain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The historian amputates reality. — Gaetano Salvemini

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

You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time. — Ken Burns

Those who read the fiction assume that, because I'm also a historian, I know what I'm talking about. — Saul David

As a natural historian, I don't believe in the consciousness of rocks or the opinions of rainbows or the convictions of slugs. — Jim Crace

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

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. — Stendhal

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

I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian. — David Burnett

True history being a mixture of all things, the true historian mingles in everything. — Victor Hugo

Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian. — Adam Hochschild

History is the invention of historians. — Napoleon Bonaparte