Historian Quotes
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The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously magnified all that conduced to her glory
Robert Green Ingersoll
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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.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
Bill Lovejoy
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I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw. And his quote was, `The path to Auschwitz was paved with indifference.` I know it`s not very funny being a comedian talking abo...
Sacha Baron Cohen
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You`ve got to understand their reasoning. They think of this historian as one of their pocket-people, whom they feel they can count on.
Steven Smith
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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.
Oliver Stone
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You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.
Ken Burns
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What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.
Lion Feuchtwanger
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The writer`s language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
Amy Beggin
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The search for the truth for truth`s sake is the mark of the historian.
Al Hartkopf
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The most secular, atheist historian on the planet would have to grant that the entire legal system of Western civilization pivots off those tablets.
Amber Bacon
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The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
Andrew Clay
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The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he`s nothing if he doesn`t make out a case.
Howard Nemerov
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
Alex Garwood
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
Andreas Hoistad
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The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
Alfred Frankenstein
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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
Al Brooks
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Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to `95, there is an entire book about that, because each one of our projects has its own book. The book is not an art book, meaning it`s not written by an art historian.
Christo
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In the mysteries project we turn students into historian detectives and invite them to do the exciting work of history. Normally, we tell students what happened when we teach history, but in this project we ask them to tell us,
John Lutz
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If he is a Christian the historian must believe that God has always been active and has been pursuing His purpose of creating sons and not robots.
Allen Sinai
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I`m not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it`s palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.
Penelope Lively
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I`m not an historian and I`m not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who`s walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.
Penelope Lively
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I`m not an historian and I`m not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who`s walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.
Penelope Lively
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I`m a historian, and that freaks me out.
Mike Tyson
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I`m a historian in my own mind.
Quentin Tarantino
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I think the game was out of hand before that (home run). It doesn`t (mean a great deal) because I don`t have anything to compare it to. I`m not a baseball historian. I don`t go home and add it up. I`ll add it all up after I retire.
Jeff Kent
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I didn`t realize the president was such an historian.
Amal Salman
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I checked my files and discovered that I had seen the letter there in 1976. As a historian, it makes you angry that these types of thefts are occurring.
Aymee Hernandez
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I can see that you 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?
Alan Zemaitis
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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I`m a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
Oliver Stone
