historian, n.Definitions

The Historian is a prophet with his face turned backward.

The Historian is a gossip who teases the dead.

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

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

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

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

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

The Historian 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.