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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.
I am not a qualified historian, but rather a teller of stories from history.
A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.
A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore
I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it.
I don't know if a historian or scholar owns an opinion.
As a historian I refuse to recognize an epochal boundary before the fact.
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.
I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what was not.
As a historian, I always think you know what a moment was 20 years later.
The easiest way of change history is to become a historian.
Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.
I'm just a normal guy and blue-collar historian, and people keep tuning in.
An Engineer is no match for a Historian with his dander up!
God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.
The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.
Technological change is essential, but to a natural historian it often feels cold and distancing.
High malice is almost inherent in the profession of historian.
[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.
I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian.
I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it?
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
I am not a historian. I don't see what I do as being a rival to biography.
fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
I am a historian. I do a lot of research, and I try to get it right.
If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.
A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.
I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a ufologist. I'm not someone who studies UFOs.
I am no historian but have tried to stick tight to the facts.
Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.
To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.
As a historian, you can only go as far as the evidence will take you.
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.
The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.
A historian should not be didactic-that is a word that makes my blood run cold.
As a historian, I've spent much of my career warning people about the dangers of nostalgia.
Viereck became a historian, specializing in modern Russia, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid
If I hadn't told stories, I would've been a historian.
The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.
Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.
I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.
I'm not a teacher; I'm not a historian. I'm trying to create a world for my characters.
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.
I'm not a historian who thinks Confederate memorials should be boarded up.
As a natural historian, I don't believe in the consciousness of rocks or the opinions of rainbows or the convictions of slugs.
The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.
What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.
The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.
What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.
A bad historian is even more dangerous than dead documentary wood.