#historian

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

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Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened. ↗

— Kenneth Baker

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I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does. ↗

— Antony Beevor

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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

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Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write. ↗

— Alexander Downer

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The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies. ↗

— Marc Bloch

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The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines. ↗

— Marc Bloch

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You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time. ↗

— Ken Burns

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A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

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Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

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