Historian Quotes
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Those who read the fiction assume that, because I'm also a historian, I know what I'm talking about.
Saul David
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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.
Sherman Alexie
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I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian, a bit of a pedant who reminisces or remembers a meeting when the other has passed by innocently…but all parts of the body must be ready for the other, all atoms must jump in one direction for desire to occur.
Michael Ondaatje
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Wolf Hall attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.
Hilary Mantel
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The way people really think is not adequately analyzed by the universal categories of logic. Between social history and formal analyses of thought there is a path, a lane - maybe very narrow - which is the path of the historian of thought.
Michel Foucault
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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.
Shinzo Abe
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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.
Alice Corbin Henderson
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The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
Thomas Kuhn
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I am not a historian. I don't see what I do as being a rival to biography.
Hilary Mantel
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No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for 'Before Coffee'.
Cherise Sinclair
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Fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
Gertrude Atherton
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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.
Stephen Ambrose
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The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance.
George Sarton