historian

person

collective noun

sexism

Cleopatra

homosexual

Historians are gossips who tease the dead Voltaire

is a prophet with his face turned backward.

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

is an occupation whose first qualification is to have no ability to invent.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. Stendhal

is equally indebted to the great men for enriching history as is the hero indebted to the historian for adorning his action.

The lives of heroes have enriched history, and history has adorned the actions of heroes ... and thus I cannot say whether the historians are more indebted to those who provided them with such noble materials, or those great men to their historians. Jean de la Bruyere

is like a deaf person who goes on answering questions that no one has asked him.

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

is someone who doesn't write well enough to work at a newspaper.

What is a historian' Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily. Karl Kraus

is godlike, for while God alone knows the future, only an historian can alter the past.

God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

is one who exercises great power on both the past and the future insofar as they recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations, thus changing the future as well.

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well. Frank Herbert

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