Quotes About Historian

That's one of the central problems of history, isn't it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, 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.

The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, 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.

Rudolf Otto, the German historian of religion who published his important book The Idea of the Holy in 1917, believed that this sense of the "numinous" was basic to religion. It preceded any desire to explain the origin of the world or find a basis for ethical behavior.

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.

Indian historian Romila Thapar has called the new 'syndicated Hinduism' of middle class urban India.

Mir Qasim Khan was very skilled in extracting information and in analysing written reports and accounts,' wrote the historian Mohammad Ali Khan Ansari of Panipat. 'He embarked immediately on the project of bringing the land of Bengal back into some sort of order.

The historian's observation is worth the Christian's remembrance: 'Crafty counsels promise fair at first, but prove more difficult in the managing, and in the end do pay the undertaker home with desperate sorrow.'[9]

The historian Hugh Trevor Roper, who visited often, described the atmosphere as 'friendly informality verging on apparent anarchy'. One military policeman famously mistook Bletchley for a military asylum. Turing

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.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.

When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact.

The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it.

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

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

The easiest way of change history is to become a historian.

Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.

Any event once it has occurred can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.