Historian Quotes
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The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.
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Wolf Hall attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.
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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.
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Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.
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I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.
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My basic notion regarding the matter of historical recognition is basically, it's a matter that should be left to the good hands of historians and experts.
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No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter.
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No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for 'Before Coffee'.
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The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance.
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I am not a historian. I don't see what I do as being a rival to biography.
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I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
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The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
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Fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
