Historian Quotes - Page 3

If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.

It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible.

Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.

Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.

The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.

A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.

What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

David Irving is not just a Fascist historian. He is also a great historian of Fascism.

To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.

We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.

Truth is with the victors-who, as you know, also controls the historians.

History is too important to be left to the historians.

I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.

I'm a historian in my own mind.

An Engineer is no match for a Historian with his dander up!

A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

Anne Romaine [ is ]folk singer and a skillful historian, even though she was not formally trained in the field [of Malcolm X].

The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.

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

Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.

History never repeats itself, historians do.

The historian is a prophet looking backward.

I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.