Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Burnett

I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.

Niall Ferguson

The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.

Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.

Paul Johnson

What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense, any more than malaria or meningitis makes sense.

Hassan Rouhani

I've said before that I am not a historian and that when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust, it is the historians that should reflect on it.

Lee Benson

History never repeats itself, historians do.

Rick Perlstein

I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?

George W. Bush

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

Julian Barnes

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

I'm very excited, especially traveling with the president, who is a historian on Scotland.

Michael Korda

The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did.

Philip Reeve

An Engineer is no match for a Historian with his dander up!

Lee Hazlewood

Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.

Peter Greenaway

Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.