Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
Herodotus
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No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'
C. S. Lewis
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
Antoine Rivarol
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
James A. Froude
Mark is a good historian, very talented and distinguished. We're eager to welcome him.
John Mcgreevy
A historian is a prophet in reverse.
Friedrich Von Schlegel
HISTORIAN, n. A broad-gauge gossip.
Ambrose Bierce
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
H. L. Mencken
The historian is a prophet looking backwards.
August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
Barbara W. Tuchman
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
Lee Simonson
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.
Paul De Man
I'm very excited, especially traveling with the president, who is a historian on Scotland.
Thomas Keith
A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
Francois Fenelon
The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.
Edward Morgan Forster
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