65 Quotes About Historians

The historian, on the contrary, cannot experiment and can rarely observe. Instead, the historian has to collect his own evidence, knowing, all the while, that some of it is useless and much of it unreliable." -Professor Charles Homer Haskins

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other."[1880]

Chicks dig historians.

Imagine, Dracula a pawn in the hands of the infidel. I wasted no time there-I learned everything I could about them, so that I might surpass them all. That was when I vowed to make history, not to be its victim.

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

I shall relate quite simply how things happened and without adding anything of my own, which is no small feat for an historian.

Los historiadores ejercen un gran poder, y algunos de ellos lo saben. Recrean el pasado, cambiándolo para que encaje con sus propias interpretaciones. De este modo, cambian también el futuro.

If anyone from any thought of school, reads, writes or reviews the history with the selected motives or pledges, will not be ever neutral and fair, and will abuse and misuse the history leading in a wrong direction. Due to the bitter fact that most historians and authors execute such conduct.

Historians, I think, should be keepers of truth. We must tell things as they are - honestly, and without subversion. That is the greatest good one can do.