Historian Quotes - Page 33

• 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

  Mean, Thinking, Guy

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• We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Real, Expression, Emotion

  Gaston Bachelard (2014). “The Poetics of Space”, Penguin

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• I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip.

  Bill Watterson

  Use, Firsts, Hobbes

  Bill Watterson (1996). “The Calvin & Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book”

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• With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.

  Kenneth M. Stampp

  Past, Keys, History

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• When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena "signs," the sceptics "coincidence," and psychologists "concentrated focus," although I've yet to find out what term historians should use).

  Paulo Coelho

  Passion, Focus, Use

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• In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or poet. His name never occurs in a single inscription, and it is never found in a single piece of private correspondence. Zero! Zip references!

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Christian, Jesus, Zero

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• Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Littles, Jazz, Opinion

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• Memory is a poet, not an historian.

  Marie Howe

  Memories, Poet

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• When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.

  Madeleine Albright

  Issues, Trying, Sometimes

  "Albright Calls for Diplomacy in Iraq" by Brenda C. Maldonado, www.thecrimson.com. April 12, 2007.

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• Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

  Steve Jobs

  Philosophical, Artist, Best Job

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.25, Prabhat Prakashan

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• If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Book, Civilization

  Jim Haskins, James Haskins, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1992). “I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Millbrook Pr

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• I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian, a bit of a pedant who reminisces or remembers a meeting when the other has passed by innocently…but all parts of the body must be ready for the other, all atoms must jump in one direction for desire to occur.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Falling In Love, Believe, One Direction

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Jan 09, 2013

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• Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does

  Rob Bell

  Reading, Israel, Doe

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.64, Harper Collins

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• I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage. Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Black And White, Reality, Color

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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• Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt.

  Cheikh Anta Diop

  Air, Egypt, Civilization

  Cheikh Anta Diop (1989). “The African Origin of Civilization: Myth Or Reality”, p.12, Chicago Review Press

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