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Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.


Alexander Downer


#historians #knows #well #will #write

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


#fairy #fairy tale #flesh #giant #good

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


Marc Bloch


#definition #examines #facts #historian #incapable

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge


#been #biographer #could #critic #failed

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

People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.


Dean Kamen


#appear #come #dead #ends #historians

I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.


Mike Tyson


#historian #i #me #out

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.


James H. Breasted


#first #gave #historian #history #man

Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time, provide theories and analysis, but for now I think most of us simply want the tide stemmed.


Lucy Powell


#events #fast #happening #historians #i






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