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#historians

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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.


Oscar Wilde


#historians #literature #description

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.


George W. Bush


#historians #history #i #like #now

Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.


Barry Unsworth


#evidence #false #fiction #find #historians

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.


Chuck Close


#art #artists #certainly #does #find

Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.


Richard Dawkins


#among #argue #critics #disagree #disagreements

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.


Simone Weil


#civilized #destroy #enslave #europe #european

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.


Edmond de Goncourt


#novelists #past #present #story #tell

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.


Philip Guedalla


#historians #history #history repeats itself #itself #other

Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.


Lord Harlech


#britain #disposed #empire #historians #honoured

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.


Tom Hayden


#chapters #civil #civil rights #establishment #handle






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