Historians Quotes
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History Quotes
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species
Konrad Lorenz
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Samuel Butler
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Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
Friedrich von Schiller
Subject: Historians QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
Marshall McLuhan
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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`re making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you`re not going to go and see it. I`d rather see paint dry.
Dougray Scott
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You`d have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don`t make movies; we do.
Dougray Scott
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This discovery provides historians with the first look at an actual wreck from a key era of trade in the Black Sea known previously only through written records,
Bob Ballard
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The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.
Alan Loewenstein
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The point I`ve always made is that I`m writing for a general audience, rather than just for an audience of academics or fellow historians.
Michael King
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The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that`s least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.
Tom Hayden
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The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.
Alicia Bell
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Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
Alain Vais
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People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.
Alan Starling
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It doesn`t upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.
Chuck Close
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In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century.
Al-Qaeda
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I`ve been in the midst of the SF scene for more than 50 years. And I think I owe it to historians of the field to set down, piecemeal though it may be, my recollections of the era through which I`ve passed.
Robert Silverberg
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History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
Alan Zemaitis
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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around th...
Simon Schama
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Canceled checks will be to future historians and cultural anthropologists what the Dead Sea Scrolls and hieroglyphics are to us.
Anne Ward
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Canadian history is not at all boring. It`s Canadian historians who are boring.
John Lutz
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As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,
David Dixon
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