Famous Quotes - Tags - Historians

  • A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards. More
  • And hiving wisdom with each studious year,
    In meditation dwelt, with learning... More
  • Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. More
  • Great abilites are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the... More
  • Historian. A broad-gauge gossip. More
  • Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to... More
  • Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say... More
  • Historian—An unsuccessful novelist. More
  • History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. More
  • I can see ... only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development... More
  • I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent.... Such as are between... More
  • Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian—ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies,... More
  • It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels,... More
  • One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the... More
  • Study men, not historians. More
  • The historian is a prophet looking backward. More
  • The historian must have ... some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise... More
  • The historian’s job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous... More
  • Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he... More
  • To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen... More
  • To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of... More
  • What is a historian? Someone who doesn’t write well enough to work on a daily. More
  • You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and... More

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