History By Historians Quotes

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

A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians. — Henry Adams

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

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