Top 25 Historian Quotes of 88 - Page 2

You are not just a photojournalist, you're a historian.

You are not just a photojournalist, you're a historian.

Historian, Photojournalists

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

Past, Historian, Knows

"'You have naked bodies and genitalia, don't you? Why are you so adolescent?': Director Peter Greenaway on 'Puritan' Americans and the intense sex scenes in 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. February 4, 2016.

I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.

Mike Tyson

Freak, Historian

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

Josef Albers

Art, Tradition, Historian

Every historian discloses a new horizon.

George Sand

New Horizons, Horizon, Historian

George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.196, Cosimo, Inc.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

Edward Gibbon

Men, History, Historian

As a historian I refuse to recognize an epochal boundary before the fact.

Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

Facts, Boundaries, Historian

Source: www.spiegel.de

From time to time historians need to be shocked.

Peter Burke

Needs, Historian, Shocked

History is the invention of historians.

Napoleon Bonaparte

History, Invention, Historian

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

Karl Kraus

History, Historian, Backwards

Aphorism collected in Heinrich Fischer (ed) Beim Wort genommen (1955). Translated by Harry Zohn in Half-truths and one-and-a-half truths (1986).

History does not have sides, although historians do.

Jay Nordlinger

Doe, Sides, Historian

Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.

Hilary Mantel

Vices, Hindsight, Historian

"Bring Up the Bodies : A Review and Interview With Booker Prize-winning Author Hilary Mantel". Interview with Ilana Teitelbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2012.

Study men, not historians.

Harry S. Truman

Men, Study, Historian

Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1997). “Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman”, p.187, University of Missouri Press

No historian should be trusted implicitly.

George Kitson Clark

History, Should, Historian

The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Sake, Mark, Historian

God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

Ambrose Bierce

Past, History, Historian

We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.

Tony Judt

Citizens, Historian

Tony Judt (2012). “Thinking the Twentieth Century”, p.268, Penguin

Women have their uses for historians.

Ronald Syme

Use, Historian

Ronald Syme (1989). “The Augustan Aristocracy”, p.168, Oxford University Press

To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

Peter Morgan

Novelists, Degrees, Historian

Source: deadline.com

We are all historians in our small way.

Jeanette Winterson

Way, Historian

Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.93, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...

James Anthony Froude

Firsts, Duty, Historian

"The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon: The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII". Book by James Anthony Froude, 1891.

I am not a historian. I don't see what I do as being a rival to biography.

Hilary Mantel

Rivals, Biographies, Historian

Source: newrepublic.com

Computer scientists are the historians of computing.

Gordon Bell

Computer, Scientist, Historian

History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.

David Drake

Decision, Worthy, Historian

David Drake (2009). “Patriots”, p.39, Baen Publishing Enterprises