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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way.
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.
Let the historians and the Ph.D. students work out their doctrines. I'm not interested in theories per se.
'Rome' plays on universal human emotions that hopefully people can relate to. Historians are always going to be offended by it.
Historians write favorably, you know, for example, about Stalin because he was doing big things.
Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.
The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.
To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.
Historians of European royalty have written of the king's 'two bodies' : one mortal and corrupt; the other divine, abstract and timeless.
I'm not a historian. I know historians. I've worked with them. They have a really powerful way of looking at the world, and I think so do poets.
I've said before that I am not a historian and that when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust, it is the historians that should reflect on it.
There are many oral historians in America, but my books are made using the rules of novel writing. I have a beginning, a plot, characters.
I believe that in years to come, historians will see the beginning of the 21st century as the ‘golden age’ of real estate.
Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.
The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum.
Some historians trace the start of the War on Terror to November 4, 1979, the day the hostages were taken in Tehran.
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.
All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.
Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.
When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.
Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
Historians who write about families are usually feminists who think in terms of gender relations.
Social media might one day offer a dazzling, and even overwhelming, array of source material for historians.
Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.
Where I think historians can help preserve and actually restore democracy is to remind us of how we got it.
Historians are presumed to be unable to "do psychology," which is "mystical" anyway, so they are forced to accept the most "rational" explanations... "and it is on these that history is built.
There seems to be no end of books about the British empire, and the fascination it holds for historians of all descriptions is inexhaustible.
Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.
The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be.
When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.
A few hints as to the craft may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing!
History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.
If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.
I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.
Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.
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.
Historians are going to look back on rising China and say America, at least under the Bush years, did not get that wrong.
Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past.
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.
We should show Chernobyl to the world: scientists, environmental specialists, historians and tourists.
Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.
Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.
Although this should not be so, historians reconsider presidencies based on how the presidents conduct themselves after leaving office.
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
Under Freud's influence, many ambitious biographers - not to mention psychologists, philosophers, and historians - have sought answers in their subject's childhood.
There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.
Historians will tell you that they deal with fact and empirical evidence. But that doesn't really help me understand a person.
As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that.
The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful.
Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.
Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West.
More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.
The fall of Rome seemed unthinkable to people at the time but inevitable to historians reflecting upon it with the benefit of context.
There may be fewer women historians writing on traditionally 'male' subjects, but they are outstanding in the field - like Margaret MacMillan.
