Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world Votes: 6
Ludwig von MisesHistorical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances. Votes: 4
Samuel Eliot MorisonThe Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism Votes: 3
Nancy HartsockHistory is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. Votes: 3
Alexis de TocquevilleHistorical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances. Votes: 3
Samuel E. MorisonI'm a big fan of historical fiction stuff. Historical battles - 'Gladiators,' 'The Patriot.' Votes: 3
Andrew LuckHistorical truth, for him, is not what has happened; it is what we judge to have happened. Votes: 3
Jorge Luis BorgesHistorical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation. Votes: 2
Kim StanleyA man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Votes: 2
Lysander SpoonerComputers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory. Votes: 0
Rick PerlsteinCollins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller. Votes: 0
Jeffery DeaverFor man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions. Votes: 0
Reinhold NiebuhrThe apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic. Votes: 0
Philip SchaffI don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place. Votes: 0
Raymond E. FeistWe encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaThere is no useful information contained in historical price movements of securities. Votes: 0
Louis BachelierThe greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves... Votes: 0
Paulo FreirePurely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history. Votes: 0
Albert CamusWhat distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization. Votes: 0
Edward Hallett CarrA historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts. Votes: 0
Barbara CartlandA lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheWe are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse. Votes: 0
Jean BaudrillardFor a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure. Votes: 0
Natasha TretheweyActually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published Votes: 0
Caroline B. CooneyActually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published. Votes: 0
Caroline B. CooneyMy books fall in the wobbly middle between historical fiction and historical romance. Votes: 0
Lauren WilligFor me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places. Votes: 0
Elizabeth Kostova[We need] to keep immigration levels measured by population share within historical norms. Votes: 0
Donald TrumpIntellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression. Votes: 0
Elisabeth Schussler FiorenzaFantasy. Lunacy.All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities. Votes: 0
David MitchellWho does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroHistory tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt. Votes: 0
Guy VanderhaegheIt can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies. Votes: 0
Antonia FraserThe chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies. Votes: 0
James BryceThe church lives because it witholds the results of the historical Jesus-research from you Votes: 0
Hans ConzelmannSpeaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me. Votes: 0
Gugu Mbatha-RawI have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes. Votes: 0
Jack L. ChalkerFor many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization. Votes: 0
Melissa FarleyAnd finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation. Votes: 0
Julius WellhausenThere are interesting scientific and historical connections between these things that I just love. Votes: 0
William GurstelleYour woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy. Votes: 0
Aldo LeopoldThere is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable. Votes: 0
Bill GatesBut every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history. Votes: 0
Martin HeideggerIf you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective. Votes: 0
Eric KandelAs a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir. Votes: 0
Andrea Davis PinkneyBut we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live. Votes: 0
Wendell WillkieTo secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillIf History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons. Votes: 0
Lucien FebvreThe greatest of all historical shams is believing you can not do something you can. Votes: 0
Erik Petersen - Love and RageI can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting. Votes: 0
Antonia FraserThere is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character. Votes: 0
Emile DurkheimNothing is easier to teach than historical method, but, when learned, it has little use. Votes: 0
Henry AdamsI read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all. Votes: 0
Megan ChanceIn non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national . Votes: 0
Andrew LamThe trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask. Votes: 0
Neil KinnockOne of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory. Votes: 0
Zhou EnlaiI really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels. Votes: 0
Kara WalkerThe recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning. Votes: 0
Reinhold NiebuhrIn individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record. Votes: 0
Barbara W. TuchmanIn individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record. Votes: 0
Barbara TuchmanThere's a lot more historical baggage to deal with as a wife than as a partner. Votes: 0
Alison PillWith sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous. Votes: 0
Mark SheppardIn general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters. Votes: 0
Mario Vargas LlosaChristianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing. Votes: 0
Lee StrobelFear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence. Votes: 0
Jeremy SiegelAs a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse. Votes: 0
Kate BravermanForgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation. Votes: 0
Ernest RenanI got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying. Votes: 0
Anita DiamentI always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it ... Votes: 0
Gertrude SteinResearch can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light. Votes: 0
Michael OndaatjeWhen you travel, take many photographs of the place to have a historical memories of the place. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaTemeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic. Votes: 0
Peter JacksonI mean, Jesus was a white man too. He was a historical figure " that's a verifiable fact. Votes: 0
Megyn KellyMy own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own. Votes: 0
Karl JaspersA novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart. Votes: 0
Julia AlvarezOne of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then. Votes: 0
James PurefoyThe White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is. Votes: 0
Iris ApfelAs an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age. Votes: 0
Sara SheridanIt's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying. Votes: 0
Jon TurteltaubIt often disturbs me, when I see a film set in a historical time, that the people are too modern. Votes: 0
Max von SydowI feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well. Votes: 0
Matthew Tobin AndersonIt's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying. Votes: 3 Jon Turteltaub
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction. Votes: 1 Candace Camp
Considering that virtually none of the standard fare surrounding Thanksgiving contains an ounce of authenticity, historical accuracy, or cross-cultural perception, why is it so apparently ingrained? Is it necessary to the American psyche to perpetually exploit and debase its victims in order to justify its history? Votes: 2 Michael Dorris
In high school pottery class, I never made a whole vase. Instead I made fragments that I tried to sell as historical artifacts. The effort earned me an F in pottery, and an A in History. Votes: 3 Jarod Kintz
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years. Votes: 3 William Golding
My books fall in the wobbly middle between historical fiction and historical romance. Votes: 2 Lauren Willig
Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture. Votes: 3 Tadao Ando
I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones. Votes: 3 Kevin McCloud
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. Votes: 4 Susan Sontag
The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed. Votes: 6 Salman Rushdie
Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents. Votes: 3 Bahman Ghobadi
Millennias old lies can be gradually accepted as truth.This is the real ultimate power of historical engineering. Votes: 3 Toba Beta
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life. Votes: 4 Raymond Queneau
No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers. Votes: 2 Heinrich Schliemann
I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor. Votes: 4 Gary Jennings
My collection of historical fashion consists of about 10,000 pieces - dresses and accessories, from 18th century to today. The main focus was initially Russian fashion, but now I have extended it to the whole European continent. Votes: 3 Alexander Vassiliev
I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it. Votes: 4 Jean M. Auel
I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the names of (Hazrat) Abu Bakar (RA) and (Hazrat) Umar Farooq (RA). They were leaders of a vast Empire, yet they lived a life of austerity. Votes: 2 Mahatma Gandhi
I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried. Votes: 3 Robin Gibb
One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then. Votes: 3 James Purefoy
Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests. Votes: 1 Charles C. Mann
For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources. Votes: 1 Michael Rostovtzeff
Paul's lack of concern with the historical Jesus is not due, as some have argued, to his emphasis on Christological rather than historical concerns. It is due to the simple fact that Paul had no idea who the living Jesus was, nor did he care. Votes: 2 Reza Aslan
Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but 'histo-tainment' is superficial and lacks all context. Votes: 3 Antony Beevor
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction. Votes: 1 Philippa Gregory
Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory. Votes: 3 Rick Perlstein
I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic. Votes: 3 Eli Roth
I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums. Votes: 1 Hans-Ulrich Obrist
I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks. Votes: 4 Jeanette Winterson
Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance. Votes: 1 Hu Shih
Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth. Votes: 3 Rush Limbaugh
For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places. Votes: 5 Elizabeth Kostova
For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places. Votes: 4 Elizabeth Kostova
You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies. Votes: 6 Tony Kushner
I love historical romance, absolutely love it. Votes: 3 Julie Garwood
I've been typed as historical fiction, historical women's fiction, historical mystery, historical chick lit, historical romance - all for the same book. Votes: 1 Lauren Willig
Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance. Votes: 5 James Lafferty
Whole swaths of the book [Lincoln in the Bardo] are made up of verbatim quotes from various historical sources, which I cut up and rearranged to form part of the narrative. Votes: 3 George Saunders
I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones. Votes: 1 Kevin McCloud
That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend. Votes: 2 Minna Antrim
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey. Votes: 3 Raymond Queneau
All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind. Votes: 3 Carl Lotus Becker