A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
Francois Fenelon

Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.
Lion Feuchtwanger

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.
Bernice Johnson Reagon

But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
Oliver Stone

Every historian discloses a new horizon.
George Sand

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
Peter Gay

Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
Samuel E. Morison

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
Ambrose Bierce

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
H. L. Mencken

I ain't no historian but I happen to savvy this incident.
Charles M. Russell

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
Oliver Stone

I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?
Donald Kagan

I didn't realize the president was such an historian.
Mark Shields

I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.
Howard Hodgkin

I'm a historian in my own mind.
Quentin Tarantino

I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.
Mike Tyson

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
Stephen Ambrose

I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.
Penelope Lively

I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.
Penelope Lively

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.
David Herbert Donald