#historian

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#duty #first #guard #his #historian

I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#been #century #change #dictated #historian

I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#archaeology #aspect #get #historian #i

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

#determined #did #evolution #face #fact

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#historian #novelist #unsuccessful

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

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward. ↗

— Josef Albers

#backward #create #historians #leave #looking

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. ↗

— Thomas Kuhn

#changes #historian #itself #may #paradigms

The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists. ↗

— Jil Sander

#apparent #certain #cultural #dated #designer