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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
A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.
— Henry Adams
![History By Historians Quotes By Max Beerbohm: History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.[1880]](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/history-by-historians-quotes-by-max-beerbohm-207755.jpg "History By Historians Quotes By Max Beerbohm: History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.[1880]")
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.[1880] — Max Beerbohm
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
Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
— Chinua Achebe
The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.
— Lynn Townsend White Jr.
I began with the desire to speak with the dead.
— Stephen Greenblatt
Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political sense.
— J. Christopher Herold
In a certain sense all men are historians.
— Thomas Carlyle
There is no history without historians." The buzz ended. "Nothing happened unless some historian said it happened.
— Harlan Hague
History,' it has been said, 'does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.
— Max Beerbohm
There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.
— Peter Greenaway
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
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
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
History is too important to be left to the historians.
— Robert Harris
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
Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
— Samuel Butler
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.
— Margaret Thatcher
We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.
— Erik Erikson
History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
— Donald Kagan
History is the invention of historians.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Canceled checks will be to future historians and cultural anthropologists what the Dead Sea Scrolls and hieroglyphics are to us.
— Brent Staples
Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
— George W. Bush
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
