Top Historians Quotes

  • Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian’s mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything. – Richard Marius

    Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian’s mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.– Richard Marius

  • 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

    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

  • There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. – Glen Cook

    There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.– Glen Cook

  • Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe. – Robert Black

    Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.– Robert Black

  • Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.– Robert Black

  • Historians are great gossips at a high level. – Marian Schlesinger

    Historians are great gossips at a high level.– Marian Schlesinger

  • Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies, but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them. – Christopher Hill

    Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies, but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them.– Christopher Hill

  • The historian’s rightful task is to distil experience as a medicinal warning for the future generations, not to distil a drug. – BH Liddell Hart

    The historian’s rightful task is to distil experience as a medicinal warning for the future generations, not to distil a drug.– BH Liddell Hart

  • As is always the case, events do not conform easily to the generalizations historians produce to try to make sense of the past. – Glenn Porter

    As is always the case, events do not conform easily to the generalizations historians produce to try to make sense of the past.– Glenn Porter

  • Chicks dig historians. – Cynthia Hand

    Chicks dig historians.– Cynthia Hand