Quotes About Historian

I don't know if a historian or scholar owns an opinion.

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.

An Engineer is no match for a Historian with his dander up!

It is not the business of the historian to construct a history from preconceived notions and to adjust it to his own liking, but to reproduce it from the best evidence and to let it speak for itself.

The duty of the historian is not to make the facts, but to discover them, and then to construct his theory wide enough to give them all comfortable room.

Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

When the historian of the Twentieth Century shall have finished his narrative, and comes searching for the subtitle which shall best express the spirit of the period, we think it not at all unlikely that he may select "The Age of Advertising" for the purpose.

The intellectual historian can help us to appreciate how far the values embodied in our present way of life, and our present ways of thinking about those values, reflect a series of choices made at different times between different possible worlds.

we must inevitably assume that the historian who judges Alexander will also after the lapse of some time turn out to be mistaken in his view of what is good for humanity.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Hackett Fischer observed that questions "are the engines of intellect5—cerebral machines that convert curiosity into controlled inquiry.

The Greek historian Herodotus, writing in the fifth century BCE, said that the Indians were the most populous country on earth (5.3).

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The whole account of baptism in the New Testament is plain and intelligible, and the state of this ordinance, during the lives of the apostles, is to be gathered mostly from the book of Acts, written by Luke, the first ecclesiastical historian.

I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are reckoning without the facts. The proportions and relations of things are just as much facts as the things themselves.

The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. It is a question of getting the true perspective, of seeing things in proportion.

To a historian that always is a difficulty. At what point in history does one particular portion of history begin

It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.

As a historian, I've spent much of my career warning people about the dangers of nostalgia.

Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama.

There was a great historian lost in Wolverstone. He had the right imagination that knows just how far it is safe to stray from the truth and just how far to colour it so as to change its shape for his own purposes.

Sir Jadunath Sarkar

Em breve, o sociólogo e o historiador, eles também filhos da Formalidade, esquecerão o riso ácido, a zombaria sutil, o humor que sente os pólos em confronto. Então o mundo volverá à solenidade, à gravidade, irremediavelmente mergulhado no lado do qual extrairá as regras, as normas e as leis de conduta

my desire to ascribe responsibility might be more a reflection of my own cast of mind than a fair analysis of what happened, like the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us