Study men, not historians.
Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.
When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation. . . they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.
Historians are presumed to be unable to "do psychology," which is "mystical" anyway, so they are forced to accept the most "rational" explanations. . . "and it is on these that history is built.
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.
Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
Truth is with the victors-who, as you know, also controls the historians.
For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography.
We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.
Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.
Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.
A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.
Artists are the emotional historians of the world.
In a certain sense all men are historians.
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.
Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the United States succeeded in its great and historic mission--it globalized the world. But along the way, they might write, it forgot to globalize itself.
Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.