Quotes About Historian

If Western civilization does not now respond constructively to the challenge to banish racism, some future historian will have to say that a great civilization died because it lacked the soul and commitment to make justice a reality for all men.

For all its erudition, Cleopatra's Egypt produced no fine historian.

You create your story in consciousness as you interpret your own behavior, and as you listen to other people's thoughts about you. The life story is not the work of a historian [...]; it is more like a work of historical fiction that makes plenty of references to real events and connects them by dramatizations and interpretations that might or might not be true to the spirit of what happened.

Hate is the shield the weak use against the knife thrusts of acceptance." He hated that, too. CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE The historian stood before the dais, his arms heavy with books and scrolls, his heart heavy with dread.

AROUND THIS TIME my mother, Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, who's since become a renowned historian in her own right, published her first book, Marxism and Asia. The fact that my mother had written a book impressed me a lot. I tried to read it, but I got stuck on the very first four words, which read: "Marxism, as everyone knows…

If a historian does not understand the bounds of the social space within which the events he is studying occurred, all he is doing is to paint a picture of his own society in fancy dress.

For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.

As a historian, you can only go as far as the evidence will take you.

I didn't realize the president was such an historian.

It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible.

I called it 'Historian' because I feel like most of my creative efforts are efforts to capture something or to document it.

By day I am a historian, by night a broadcaster.

Those who read the fiction assume that, because I'm also a historian, I know what I'm talking about.

I'm a basketball junkie and a real historian of the game, so for me to get a chance to express it and give my perspective on a national stage, I'm really enjoying it.

As one of the very few black historians who, from time to time, appears on TV, my daily life is a constant, open-air focus group.

Even the most meticulous historians work subjectively. The historian's point of view, his or her selection of subject and sources, the emphasis, the tone - all of these lead to subjective history, inevitably so. I do not say this as a criticism, merely as an observation.

It is a shame you plan to go home after the summer. With just one more year you could become a tutor. Cat's-eye green would become you, Miri of Mount Eskel.' 'Just one more year?' she asked. He nodded. 'Or stay two years, don the honey-drop robes, and become the first historian of Mount Eskel. You have a keen mind. One day you could wear raven's head.' She

A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.

As a historian I am no longer obsessed with the theological question of how God became a man, but with the historical question of how a man became God.

The historian Yuval Harari notes that terrorism is the opposite of military action, which tries to damage the enemy's ability to retaliate and prevail.

Estudiar la evolución cultural de la humanidad sin perderse en generalidades parece un proyecto megalómano, condenado al fracaso. No hace falta ser historiador para comprender que la

Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties are sharpened by the absence of the credibility that I ask for. As a historian, I know what can be offered.

The anarch knows the rules. He has studied them as a historian and goes along with them as a contemporary. Wherever possible, he plays his own game within their framework; this makes the fewest waves.

At times I see them as if I were walking through the streets of Pompeii before the eruption of Vesuvius. This is one of the historian's delights and, even more, his sorrow. If we see someone doing something for the last time, even just eating a piece of bread, this activity becomes wondrously profound. We participate in the transmutation of the ephemeral into the sacramental. We have inklings of eras during which such a sight was an everyday occurrence.