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If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.
— Beaumont Newhall
A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.
— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Elizabeth Kostova's 2005 blockbuster, The Historian,
— Deborah Harkness
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
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
A historian who works for a bank: That's not the most likely background for someone who capers around the cosmos having adventures, is it?
— Charles Stross
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 cannot pick and choose his facts; he must deal with all the evidence.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
A distinguished historian has said that one of the most valuable things about history is that it teaches us how things do not happen.
— Joe Scarborough
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
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
— Thomas Carlyle
The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context
— Edward Hallett Carr
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 duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.
— Antony Beevor
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
I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am.
— Rick Perlstein
Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.
— Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
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[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.
— Lynn Townsend White Jr.
Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.
— Peter Greenaway
I didn't realize the president was such an historian.
— Mark Shields
The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur.
— Erwin Panofsky
History is not the pure past; history is a past interpreted from the present of the historian.
— Justo L. Gonzalez
Could be, but to a historian, it's been going since the beginning.
— William Least Heat-Moon
If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.
— David Herbert Donald
In the future - 60-80 years from now, what would a historian of that time look back at as the one big thing that changed everything?
— Osama A. Hashmi
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
The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.
— Marc Bloch
Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.
— Hilary Mantel
The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and 'presentism' is his original sin.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
The easiest way of change history is to become a historian.
— Jerry Falwell
The future historian will rank him as one of the heroes of the nineteenth century.{Stanton's opinion of the great Robert Ingersoll} — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
— Stephen Ambrose
There is no history without historians." The buzz ended. "Nothing happened unless some historian said it happened.
— Harlan Hague
It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.
— Elizabeth Kostova
History is too important to be left to the historians.
— Robert Harris
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[T]he historian and the detective have much in common.
— Ralph Davis
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.
— Henry Adams
Historians predict the past for a living.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.
— Ludwig Von Mises
The historian must have no country. - JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
— James W. Loewen
What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.
— Edward Hallett Carr
A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.
— Joseph Conrad
Historians are gossips who tease the dead
— Voltaire
What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.
— Lion Feuchtwanger
Once again the historian who wishes to understand this difficult period must try to read between the lines. It
— Donald Kagan
One evening I let a stranger buy me a round of a local specialty called, whimsically, amnesia ...
— Elizabeth Kostova
To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?
— Peter Morgan
'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.
— Hilary Mantel
I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past
— Eduardo Galeano
How strange it is to view a town you grew up in, not in wonderment through the eyes of youth, but with the eyes of a historian on the way things were.
— Marvin Allan Williams
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 will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
— E.L. Doctorow
Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.
— Mason Cooley
To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess
— George Koltanowski
To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
— David Hume
Those who read the fiction assume that, because I'm also a historian, I know what I'm talking about.
— Saul David
The historian records, but the novelist creates.
— E. M. Forster
The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.
— James Henry Breasted
The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
— Peter Ackroyd
There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.
— Peter Greenaway
When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.
— Melvin B. Tolson
The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.
— Robin G. Collingwood
The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
— B.H. Liddell Hart
The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar.
— F.F. Bruce
Respect for the faith of sincere believers cannot be allowed either to block or deflect the investigation of the historian.
— Maxime Rodinson
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
— James Anthony Froude
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
Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. - historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle
— Carol Tavris
The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.
— Agatha Christie
