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Historians Quotes

Leave history to historians.

History Leave Historians

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

Alexander Downer

Goodness Will Write Well Historians

Most historians are engaged in fiction.

Fiction Historians Engaged Most

We want a world with both historians and novelists, don't we? Not with one or the other. Every fiction writer crosses the line that divides artistry and documentation - or erases it.

World Want Line Fiction Historians

Some historians trace the start of the War on Terror to November 4, 1979, the day the hostages were taken in Tehran.

Stephen Rodrick

Day War Start Historians Trace Some

Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.

Up Things Left Historians Valuable

Study men, not historians.

Men Study Historians

We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.

Always Historians Citizens Merely

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

People Questions Go Deaf Historians

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God History Past Historians Cannot

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

Art Looking Create Leave Historians

Historians who write about families are usually feminists who think in terms of gender relations.

Think Gender Write Historians Who

Although this should not be so, historians reconsider presidencies based on how the presidents conduct themselves after leaving office.

Leaving Office Historians Conduct

Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.

World Historians Public Catty

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.

Henry Louis Gates

Small You Look Historians Generalize

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

Ferdinand Marcos

History Write Left Historians Rather

The best writers attempt to become alternative historians.

Best Become Historians Attempt

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

History Now Call Historians Would

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

Edmond de Goncourt

Past Story Present Tell Historians

Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples.

Time Will Events Handle Historians

To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.

History Write Difficult Historians

I've always been captivated by the Voynich Manuscript - the mysterious, 15th-century encrypted codex that still baffles cryptologists, linguists, and historians.

Mysterious Always Historians Been

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