Quotes with historian

  • The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
  • To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
  • The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
  • 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.
  • The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.
  • 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.
  • But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.
  • What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.
  • The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
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  • H. A. L. Fisher 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.
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  • Lee Simonson Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
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  • Brendan I. Koerner 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.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor Ancient Pines, Ye bear no record of the years of man. Spring is your sole historian.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian... Imagination is not required in any high degree.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Historian - an unsuccessful novelist.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, What happened next?
    A Personal History (1983) p. 301
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Gore Vidal It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Henry David Thoreau 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.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • C. S. Lewis No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.
    The Weight of Glory
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Antoine Rivarol Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • George Eliot 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.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • A. B. Yehoshua So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
    A. B. Yehoshua
    Israeli novelist (1936 - )
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  • James A. Froude The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Buffalo Bill The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
    An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • E. M. Forster The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Henry James The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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