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Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style. — Edmund Burke

Sputnik quickly became one of the three great shocks to hit America - historians say the equal of Pearl Harbor or 9/11. — David Hoffman

The librarians know the secrets, not the historians — Dee Brown

The best moments in life are not the kind many historians record. — James Lee Burke

Historians of European royalty have written of the king's 'two bodies' : one mortal and corrupt; the other divine, abstract and timeless. — Stacey D'Erasmo

Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles. — Dan Jenkins

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

If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred. — Baruch Spinoza

as is done by the newest historians, we shall have the history of monarchs and writers, but not the history of the life of the peoples. — Leo Tolstoy

No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for Before Coffee. — Cherise Sinclair

The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do. — Louis Moreau Gottschalk

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

There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. — Glen Cook

If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will. — David Christian

Computer scientists are the historians of computing. — Gordon Bell

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
[1880] — Max Beerbohm

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together. — Friedrich Engels

Historians are going to look back on rising China and say America, at least under the Bush years, did not get that wrong. — Thomas P.M. Barnett

Historians must not confuse the passage of time with the accumulation of intelligence," John Lewis Gaddis has cautioned. — Douglas Boin

Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies, but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them. — Christopher Hill

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

Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed. — Graham Stanton

Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything. — Nikita Khrushchev

Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey. — Mason Cooley

We are not merely historians but also and always citizens. — Tony Judt

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it. — John Cusack

The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true. — Ernest Renan

There is no history without historians." The buzz ended. "Nothing happened unless some historian said it happened. — Harlan Hague

It really is brilliant news that historians can just never get things right. — Keith Jenkins

Leave history to historians. — Ali Babacan

To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende. — Erich Auerbach

I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers. — Steven Spielberg

God cannot alter the past, though historians can. — Samuel Butler

A few hints as to literary craftsmanship may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing! — Samuel Eliot Morison

Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue. — Thomas Keneally

In a certain sense all men are historians. — Thomas Carlyle

History will treat me fairly. Historians probably won't, because most historians are on the left. — Richard M. Nixon

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us. — Michel De Montaigne

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward. — Friedrich Schiller

It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters. — Dore Ashton

One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill. — Robert Rhodes James

Good historians keep the past in their head and the future in their heart. — Robert Jackson Bennett

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us. — Julian Barnes

Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition. — Bill Moyers

Turning points are only uncovered later, by historians who seek to bring order to a lifetime of tangled memories. — Kate Morton

Chicks dig historians. — Cynthia Hand

Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians. — Joseph J. Ellis

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past. — Peter Greenaway

Historians have determined that had Chamberlain not charged that day, the rebels would have won at Gettysburg. — Andy Andrews

Historians get to make their living by reading other peoples mail. — Unknown

History,' it has been said, 'does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another. — Max Beerbohm

Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians. — Thomas Frank

Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private. — Craig Brown

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians. — Chuck Close

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found. — F. Sionil Jose

We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians. — Sophie Swetchine

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. — Horace Walpole

Historians are not often appreciated because their research tends to destroy myths. I — Thomas King

Some historians trace the start of the War on Terror to November 4, 1979, the day the hostages were taken in Tehran. — Stephen Rodrick

Europe's history of trading relations with India is borne out in the writings of the ancient historians Herodotus, Pliny, Petronius and Ptolemy, and — Shashi Tharoor

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

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any. — Carl L. Becker

Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared. — Stephen Kinzer

Historians and critics too often overlook the state of mind of the commanders in judging a military or naval action. — Tameichi Hara

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

Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West.
More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors. — Elizabeth Bishop

Historians in England will say I am a liar. But history is written by those who have hanged heroes. — Robert The Bruce

The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction. — Oscar Wilde

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them. — George W. Bush

Canceled checks will be to future historians and cultural anthropologists what the Dead Sea Scrolls and hieroglyphics are to us. — Brent Staples

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

As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that. — Roselee Goldberg

Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe. — Robert Black

Historians who write about families are usually feminists who think in terms of gender relations. — Jane Ridley

Historians study the past not in order to repeat it, but in order to be liberated from it. — Yuval Noah Harari

Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. — Chinua Achebe

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

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was. — Lynn Townsend White Jr.

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians. — Samuel Butler

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story. — Donald Kagan

Obtruded on us by the Scottish historians. [* Chron. Sax. p. 19.] [** W. Malms, p. 19.] — David Hume

Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers. — Thomas Piketty

Sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late — G.K. Chesterton

It is a dangerous myth that we are better historians than our predecessors. We are not. — Mary Beard

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. — Margaret Thatcher

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive. — Luc Tuymans

We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians. — Erik Erikson

No historians or librar ians were harmed in the making of this book, but some were badgered extensively with questions. — Libba Bray

[H]istory viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians. — Dan Simmons

I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together. — John Olsen

Among German historians, there's really not much debate about whether or not Hitler was a social Darwinist. He clearly was drawing on Darwinian ideas. — Richard Weikart

History is the invention of historians. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Study men, not historians. — Harry S. Truman

As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. — Margaret Atwood

The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance. — George Sarton

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

History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents. — C.V. Wedgwood

Kirkus Star Review stated of Behind the Lines: "An excellent history that should catapult Miller to the top tier of popular historians. — Jeffrey B. Miller

Artists are the emotional historians of the world. — Richard Blanco

Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. — Eric Hobsbawm