Historians Quotes

• A hung jury, however, suggests that any decline was not overwhelming; and, in common with most historians, I believe the empire was still very powerful at the end of the fourth century. Unfortunately, a series of disasters was soon to change things.

  

  Bryan Ward-Perkins
  • Change
  • Empire
  • Jury

• It is up to the historians, not politicians, to judge what happened in the past. Politicians look into the future.

  

  Egemen Bağış
  • Judge
  • Politicians
  • Historians

• The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than just scratch the surface. The story is such that 500 years from now people will be writing and reading about it.

  

  Rick Atkinson
  • People
  • Reading
  • Historians

• Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, an ever-growing number of established non-fiction writers - Giles Milton, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Harry Sidebottom, Patrick Bishop, Ian Mortimer and myself included - have written historical novels.

  

  Saul David
  • Fiction
  • Novels
  • Established

• Historians will look back on this era and how the Internet changed what we value, what we consider art, the way we think, the way we define what it means to be human. In Sincerity and Authenticity, Lionel Trilling describes the changes that occurred between about 1850 and 1920, due to the Industrial Revolution and the resulting migration of people from small communities to relative anonymity in cities. Because of that paradigm shift, ideas about what it means to be an individual underwent a transformation that leeched into all areas. Art, psychology, history, marriage, gender.

  

  Debra Monroe
  • Changes
  • Consider
  • Gender

• I believe that in years to come, historians will see the beginning of the 21st century as the ‘golden age’ of real estate.

  

  David Lereah
  • Believe
  • Beginning
  • Estate

• Good historians, I suspect, whether they think about it or not, have the future in their bones. Besides the question: Why? the historian also asks the question: Whither?

  

  Edward Hallett Carr
  • Future
  • Question
  • Historians

• As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,.

  

  David Dixon
  • Training
  • Discipline
  • Documentary

• NICHOLAS GALING DRESSED FOR THE HISTORIANS’ debate with all of his usual care. He wore green, for spring, with a waistcoat embroidered with jonquils. In deference to the gravity of the occasion, the green was dark, and he wore no lace.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Spring
  • Gravity
  • Occasion

• Great historians can make the discovery of the real story more exciting than the romantic myth. Stacy Schiff, a great historian as well as a wonderful writer, peels away the layers to reveal the true Cleopatraa much more interesting woman than the Hollywood version and, as it turns out, a formidable queen after all.

  

  Evan Thomas
  • Interesting
  • Writer
  • Discovery

• For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Future

• If historians are not skeptical, they are nothing.

  

  Geoffrey Elton
  • Historians
  • Skeptical

• Study men, not historians.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Historians
  • Study men

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