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You’re not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed (Historian Quotes)
When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian (Historian Quotes)
There is no such thing as a neutral or purely objective historian. Without an opinion a historian would be simply a ticking clock, and unreadable besides (Historian Quotes)
The historian reports to us, not events themselves, but the impressions they have made on him (Historian Quotes)
The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies; but he cannot wholly escape their influence (Historian Quotes)
The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take (Historian Quotes)
What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement (Historian Quotes)
A poet, naturalist and historian, who scarcely left any style of writing untouched and touched nothing that he did not adorn (Historian Quotes)
History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light (Historian Quotes)
Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances (Historian Quotes)
I’m not an aviation historian, I’m not an Air Force aficionado, and I’m definitely not a ufologist. I’m not someone who studies UFOs (Historian Quotes)
No one can really know the life of his own day, let alone that of times long past. Always the historian sees as in a mirror darkly, the reds and the golds rendered drab by the shadows of time (Historian Quotes)
I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen (Historian Quotes)
A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint (Historian Quotes)
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers (Historian Quotes)
The search for the truth for truth’s sake is the mark of the historian (Historian Quotes)
I think it’s outrageous if a historian has a ‘leading thought’ because it means they will select their material according to their thesis (Historian Quotes)
I’m a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I’ve been studying Naval battles forever (Historian Quotes)
A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore (Historian Quotes)
As a historian I refuse to recognize an epochal boundary before the fact (Historian Quotes)
I’m a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it? (Historian Quotes)
The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation (Historian Quotes)
The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur (Historian Quotes)
What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity (Historian Quotes)
The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves (Historian Quotes)
I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian (Historian Quotes)
Stacy Schiff is that rare combination: a first-rate historian and a brilliant storyteller. Using a wide range of sources, she spins straw into gold, conjuring the world of Ptolemaic Egypt in full vibrant color, and returning the voice of one of the most powerful, fascinating, and maligned women in history. Cleopatra is impossible to put down (Historian Quotes)
The introduction of the Christian religion into the world has produced an incalculable change in history. There had previously been only a history of nations--there is now a history of mankind; and the idea of an education of human nature as a whole.--an education the work of Jesus Christ Himself--is become like a compass for the historian, the key of history, and the hope of nations (Historian Quotes)
Historian Larry Hise notes in his book Pro-Slavery that ministers ‘wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America.’ He listed 275 men of the cloth who used the Bible to prove that white people were entitled to own black people as work animals (Historian Quotes)
The pioneer labor historian John Commons was not wrong when he wrote around World War One that exploiting and deepening such tensions as outpacing scientific management among U.S. innovations where bossing was concerned. Amidst the general miseries of proletarianization, workers also learned that one source of meager benefits and protections could lie in claiming a white skin (Historian Quotes)