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Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves (Historian Quotes)
I don’t really have a historical overview of my work at all. I’m not an art historian. I don’t see that there’s this period and that period (Historian Quotes)
I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What’s the same and what’s different? (Historian Quotes)
I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I’m a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history (Historian Quotes)
A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries (Historian Quotes)
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them (Historian Quotes)
The writer’s language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language (Historian Quotes)
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents (Historian Quotes)
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian (Historian Quotes)
If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history (Historian Quotes)
The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination (Historian Quotes)
A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life (Historian Quotes)
It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary embarrassing question: what is intended by myth? It is also because the answers given depend for the most part on the documents selected (Historian Quotes)
It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible (Historian Quotes)
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 Quotes)
As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws (Historian Quotes)
The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present (Historian Quotes)
An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and then for a fresh view (Historian Quotes)
The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact (Historian Quotes)
The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don’t know about, but wish to know about in a way that they can understand (Historian Quotes)
The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists adopt new instruments and look in new places. even more important, during revolutions, scientists see new and different things when looking with familiar instruments in places they have looked before. It is rather as if the professional community had been suddenly transported to another planet where familiar objects are seen in a different light and are joined by unfamiliar ones as well (Historian Quotes)
As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality of the geologist of essential importance in the way he analyzes the past (Historian Quotes)
The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a fig and a spade a spade. He should yield to neither hatred nor affection, not should be unsparing and unpitying. He should be neither shy nor deprecating, but an impartial judge, giving each side all it deserves but no more. He should know in his writing no country and no city; he should bow to no authority and acknowledge no king. He should never consider what this or that man will think, but should state the facts as they really occurred (Historian Quotes)
If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history (Historian Quotes)
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 (Historian Quotes)
As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it (Historian Quotes)
The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience (Historian Quotes)
The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to illustrate its greatness, beauty and dignity, and to describe how the incessant efforts and accumulated genius of many generations have built up that magnificent monument, the object of our most legitimate pride as men, and of our wonder, humility and thankfulness, as individuals. The study of the history of mathematics will not make better mathematicians but gentler ones, it will enrich their minds, mellow their hearts, and bring out their finer qualities (Historian Quotes)
History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger’s slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him (Historian Quotes)
The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid (Historian Quotes)