#historia

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story. ↗

— Donald Kagan

#explaining #had #historians #history #own

I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different? ↗

— Donald Kagan

#always #anybody #ask #because #different

So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on. ↗

— A. B. Yehoshua

#certain #deliberation #dot #end #go

All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind. ↗

— Carl L. Becker

#historians #history #age

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

#passions #reason

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#appreciation #art #art history #aspects #historians

Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems. ↗

— Aly Khan

#burdens #force #fortunately #historians #historic

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#historian #humanity #like #look #must

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#does #dramatic #dramatist #historian #history

You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#discrete #facts #historian #historians #into