Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

Konrad Lorenz
203

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Leo Tolstoy
0

The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.

Samuel Butler
0

History is too serious to be left to historians.

Ian Macleod
0

We will leave that to historians.

Halee Hamilton
0

Mostly, we are amateur historians. We try to live like our ancestors or forefathers.

Wade Reynolds
0

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

David Dixon
0

Give the historians something to write about.

Sextus Propertius
0

The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.

Peter Conrad
0

Years ago there were historians who 'just sit and know;' that was the expression.

Willa Skinner
0

It is not the historian's business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare the facts of the case, as he understands them . . . dispassionately, impartially and without ulterior motives.

Lytton Strachey
0

The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.

Edward Morgan Forster
0