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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

History is the invention of historians. —
Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

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

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

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

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

Leave history to historians. —
Ali Babacan

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

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

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

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

Chicks dig historians. —
Cynthia Hand

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

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

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

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

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

I began with the desire to speak with the dead. —
Stephen Greenblatt