Historian Quotes - page 8

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. (H. A. L. Fisher)
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. View quote
Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigne
It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda. View quote
John Hope Franklin
Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that. View quote
Lee Hazlewood
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. View quote
Lee Simonson
I didn't realize the president was such an historian. View quote
Mark Shields
According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades. View quote
Brendan I. Koerner
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. View quote
Christo
I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever. View quote
Peter Berg
I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian. View quote
Robert Darnton
The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind. (Samuel E. Morison)
I have never believed that the historian should seek to perpetuate the misapprehensions of the past, and it is true that we understand Beethoven today better than his contemporaries did, better, above all, than the generation that immediately followed him, including his own most important pupil, Karl Czerny. View quote
Charles Rosen
The historian is not only a lover of truth, not only a chronicler of events. These, indeed, he must be at his peril, but how much more! Insight into human nature-and this implies the rarest knowledge and finest sympathy of which man is capable; the power of tracing the delicate relation between deed and motive, and the pressure of action upon circumstance and circumstance upon action; knowledge of the world, in short, in the highest sense of that expression. View quote
Henry Nettleship
Nations What are nations Tartars and Huns and Chinamen Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change only to give stability to one beautiful moment. View quote
George Eliot
When the history of Oregon comes to be written the mind of the historian will be impressed by the earnestness and sincerity of character-the unobtrusive, unostentatious conduct of those who formed its population from the first reclaiming of the wilderness-the pioneer epoch-to the more refined advancement into social and political existence. View quote
George Law Curry
Epifanio de los Santos, greatest connoisseur of Filipiniana, foremost Filipino historian and biographer, and the first Filipino to become member of the Spanish Academy of Letters. View quote
Epifanio de los Santos
Wittgenstein expressed more than once the fear that his writings would be destroyed by fire. He related with horror how the great historian, Mommsen, had lost a manuscript volume of his History of Rome in that way. View quote
Norman Malcolm
I am not commenting on the contradictions, prevarications, pretensions, and plain lies contained in these lines from a "learned historian” whose monograph was published by a prestigious British publisher. I am sure the readers will see for themselves the sheer scoundrelism of this apologetics. What I want to show in these quotations is the mind which the secularists in India have swallowed - hook, line, and sinker. It is this mind which our secularists have been cultivating over the years. And I am absolutely sure that the NCERT is out to patronise this mind. View quote
Sita Ram Goel
The only voice which was heard against this nation-wide exercise in suppressio veri suggestio falsi in the field of medieval Indian history, was that of the veteran historian, R.C. Majumdar. For him, this "national integration” based on a wilful blindness to recorded history of the havoc wrought by Islam in India, could lead only to national suicide. He tried his best to arrest the trend by presenting Islamic imperialism in medieval India as it was, and not as the politicians in league with Stalinist and Muslim historians were tailoring it to become. View quote
Sita Ram Goel
Alas for poor Jadunath Sarkar, who must have turned in his grave if he were buried. For, after reading his History of Aurangzib, one would be tempted to ask, if the temple-breaking policy of Aurangzeb is a disputed point, is there a single fact in the whole recorded history of mankind which may be taken as undisputed? A noted historian has sought to prove that the Hindu population was better off under the Muslims than under the Hindu tributaries or independent rulers.”. (Sita Ram Goel)
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. View quote
Cicero
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. View quote
Eric Kandel
I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read other people's vampires. If it's too close, I get upset; if it's too far away, I get upset. It just makes me very neurotic. View quote
Stephenie Meyer
The theologians may indulge the pleasing task of describing religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian read journalist He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings. View quote
Edward Gibbon