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I’m not a historian, and I wouldn’t want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy. Look at my stories and you’ll notice that the villains are always, always, those in power. The heroes are the little people. I hate the establishment. Always have, always will (Historian Quotes)
The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things (Historian Quotes)
If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life (Historian Quotes)
The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes (Historian Quotes)
To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events (Historian Quotes)
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian (Historian Quotes)
A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind (Historian Quotes)
The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level (Historian Quotes)
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? (Historian Quotes)
The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context (Historian Quotes)
I wanted to work in the arts. My dream come true would be to be an architectural historian and work with the royal palaces and all the fabulous art collections. But I’m not committed enough (Historian Quotes)
My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline (Historian Quotes)
Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards (Historian Quotes)
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand (Historian Quotes)
What is a historian? Someone who doesn’t write well enough to work on a daily (Historian Quotes)
There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know (Historian Quotes)
I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so its really confusing (Historian Quotes)
The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts (Historian Quotes)
That’s one of the central problems of history, isn’t it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us (Historian Quotes)
History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated (Historian Quotes)
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women (Historian Quotes)
As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman (Historian Quotes)
The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice (Historian Quotes)
The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth (Historian Quotes)
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other (Historian Quotes)
Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility (Historian Quotes)
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten... What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions; plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion (Historian Quotes)
It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually only amuses himself or makes sport of us, as, for instance, the naturalist or historian. But a single action or event is interesting, not because it is explainable, but because it is true (Historian Quotes)
As a historian I understand how histories are written. My enemies will write histories that dismiss me and prove I was unimportant. My friends will write histories that glorify me and prove I was more important than I was. And two generations or three from now, some serious sober historian will write a history that sort of implies I was whoever I was (Historian Quotes)
No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician (Historian Quotes)