44 Quotes About Historian
"History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction."
"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity."
"The historian is a prophet looking backwards."
"This corner of history was as real as the tiled floor under our feet or the wooden tabletop under our fingers. The people to whom it had happened had actually lived and breathed and felt and thought and then died, as we did - as we would."
"Given the focus on language, it should come as no surprise that this book deals with what individuals said and published … The new “linguistic” emphasis of modern scholarship has added to our understanding of the past … Throughout, “language” is not recovered divorced from its historical context, but linked to the individuals who used it, and to their (and others’) actions and activities"
"It’s the reward of the business (historian), to look history in the eye & say, ‘I know who you are. You can’t fool me."
"Looking down on their glossy heads, I realized that they were indeed threatened; they were simply unaware of it. We are all vulnerable."
"The future historian will rank him as one of the heroes of the nineteenth century.{Stanton's opinion of the great Robert Ingersoll}"