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Study men, not historians.
Leave history to historians.
Most historians are engaged in fiction.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
Historians are prophets of the past, not of the future.
The best writers attempt to become alternative historians.
We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.
Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.
I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
Americans are in vital need of the instruction that historians can provide.
Historians often find important decisions few knew were important at the time.
Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.
If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.
We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.
Historians who write about families are usually feminists who think in terms of gender relations.
The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful.
Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.
We should show Chernobyl to the world: scientists, environmental specialists, historians and tourists.
History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
Let the historians and the Ph.D. students work out their doctrines. I'm not interested in theories per se.
Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
Where I think historians can help preserve and actually restore democracy is to remind us of how we got it.
Social media might one day offer a dazzling, and even overwhelming, array of source material for historians.
The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.
To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.
Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.
Some historians trace the start of the War on Terror to November 4, 1979, the day the hostages were taken in Tehran.
The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum.
Historians sometimes view presidents very differently from the way the public did at the time. Sometimes they don't.
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
Drawing on real life is what novelists do. It's not the same as reconstructing real life, which is what historians do.
Sputnik quickly became one of the three great shocks to hit America - historians say the equal of Pearl Harbor or 9/11.
Historians are going to look back on rising China and say America, at least under the Bush years, did not get that wrong.
Historians will tell you that they deal with fact and empirical evidence. But that doesn't really help me understand a person.
'Rome' plays on universal human emotions that hopefully people can relate to. Historians are always going to be offended by it.
As one of the very few black historians who, from time to time, appears on TV, my daily life is a constant, open-air focus group.
The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be.
World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.
Historians are a long way from being key workers. The best place for them is at home, reading their books and keeping out of the way.
Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
The fall of Rome seemed unthinkable to people at the time but inevitable to historians reflecting upon it with the benefit of context.
Although this should not be so, historians reconsider presidencies based on how the presidents conduct themselves after leaving office.
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.