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Historian Quotes

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There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
Chinua Achebe

It is often said that until those who are oppressed are able to tell their own stories, the narrative of the oppressor will remain triumphant.
Authors on Historian Quotes: Hilary Mantel Peter Greenaway Karl Kraus Antony Beevor Beaumont Newhall Lucian Edward Hallett Carr Peter Gay Marie Howe F. F. Bruce Max Beerbohm D. James Kennedy Harry S. Truman Rolf Hochhuth Donald Kagan Jerry Falwell Jack Granatstein Robert Darnton Gordon Bell George Kitson Clark Napoleon Bonaparte Alexander Downer Melvin B. Tolson C. V. Wedgwood Lee Benson Ronald Syme Chinua Achebe Jerry Spinelli Ferdinand Marcos Sophie Swetchine Benjamin Franklin Friedrich Schiller George Santayana
2.
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
Ferdinand Marcos

3.
Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.
Nikita Khrushchev

4.
The historian amputates reality.
Gaetano Salvemini

5.
Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.
Edward Hallett Carr

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Good historians, I suspect, whether they think about it or not, have the future in their bones. Besides the question: Why? the historian also asks the question: Whither?
Edward Hallett Carr

7.
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
Oliver Cromwell

8.
The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
E. L. Doctorow

9.
If historians are not skeptical, they are nothing.
Geoffrey Elton

10.
When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.
Melvin B. Tolson

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Memory is a poet, not an historian.
Marie Howe

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Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.
Ronald Wright

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I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.
Robert Plant

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The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.
G. M. Trevelyan

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I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.
David Burnett

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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
Stendhal

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The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar.
F. F. Bruce

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The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.
Marc Bloch

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Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
George W. Bush

20.
The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.
Miguel de Cervantes

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History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.
Max Beerbohm

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That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back and attempt to revise and rewrite history in their own image.
D. James Kennedy

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A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.
C. V. Wedgwood

24.
You are not just a photojournalist, you're a historian.
Bill Eppridge

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Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
Peter Gay

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

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

28.
I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.
Mike Tyson

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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
George Santayana

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

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Every historian discloses a new horizon.
George Sand

32.
History is the invention of historians.
Napoleon Bonaparte

33.
Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.
Hilary Mantel

34.
Study men, not historians.
Harry S. Truman

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The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
B. H. Liddell Hart

36.
No historian should be trusted implicitly.
George Kitson Clark

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

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From time to time historians need to be shocked.
Peter Burke

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A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.
Karl Kraus

40.
Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.
Benjamin Franklin

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

42.
Women have their uses for historians.
Ronald Syme

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We are all historians in our small way.
Jeanette Winterson

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

45.
Computer scientists are the historians of computing.
Gordon Bell

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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

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We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.
Tony Judt

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

49.
If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.
Beaumont Newhall

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History does not have sides, although historians do.
Jay Nordlinger