Historian Quotes - Page 4

Heart and head are contrary historians.

The easiest way of change history is to become a historian.

I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it.

I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian.

For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography.

fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

I can see that you [Bruce Cole] are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.