Quotes About Historiography

#1. If nature abhors a vacuum, historiography loves a void because it can be filled with any number of plausible accounts;
Howe, Nicholas, Anglo-Saxon England and the postcolonial void

Deanne Williams

#2. It has become increasingly necessary to abandon the use of biblical historiography as a viable source for our own historical writing .. We must be ready to radically alter and consciously distance ourselves from all presuppositions that have been imposed on us by the biblical account.

Frank Charles Thompson

#3. Apocalypse is the lens through which we view international politics because it is the fons et origo of the concept of history and historiography. Were it not for apocalypse, we would not have the categories of mind with which to ask the questions of meaning and adequacy of interpretation. M

Robert Hamerton-Kelly

#4. Meta-design is much more difficult than design; it's easier to draw something than to explain how to draw it.

Donald Knuth

#5. I want people to know about these visionary artists. I want people to know what they stand for and (that) they are representing something unique, something fresh. I am just so excited about their careers.

Janelle Monae

#6. It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

Phyllis Bottome

#7. Technology is often portrayed as an objective measure of development, and its advancement as something that can be examined outside of politics. But the history of technology, particularly military technology, has been deeply inflected by nationalist sentiment.

Peter A. Lorge

#8. Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

D.H. Lawrence

#9. I feel like I'm indirectly showing people, not that there's another way, but just that if you really have a dream, you should try and give it a go.

Tinie Tempah

#10. The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women can do ... birthing naturally, as most women do around the globe, is a superhuman act. You leave behind the comforts of being human and plunge back into being an animal ...

Ani DiFranco

#11. Okay, brace yourselves for a really hilarious joke here: Being a vampire sucks.

Tamara Summers

#12. How about that?" Henry claps

Jojo Moyes

#13. Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.

Marc Bloch

#14. And is not that a Mother's gentle hand that undraws your curtains, and a Mother's sweet voice that summons you to rise? To rise and forget, in the bright sunlight, the ugly dreams that frightened you so when all was dark.

Lewis Carroll

#15. Marx wrote that 'History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.' This was witty but far from true. History is never repeated, but it borrows, steals, echoes and commandeers the past to create a hybrid, something unique out of the ingredients of past and present.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

#16. Just because you're an angel doesn't mean you have to be a fool.

Terry Pratchett

#17. There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.

Cassandra Clare

#18. The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.

John Muir

#19. Of all the great forces which have formed the past, none has disappeared more effectively, or when recalled retains less of its once compelling force, than the power of the spoken word.

R.W. Southern

#20. Guns neither initiated nor enabled larger changes. Economic, political, and social development preceded and laid the foundation for the invention and use of the gun, not the other way around.

Peter A. Lorge

#21. The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#22. The mainstreaming of African American history was a byproduct of the long black freedom struggle, the early black history movement, and the black student movement of the Black Power era.

Pero Gaglo Dagbovie

#23. The fatal weakness of most psychiatric historiographies lies in the historians' failure to give sufficient weight to the role of coercion in psychiatry and to acknowledge that mad-doctoring had nothing to do with healing.

Thomas Szasz

#24. I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis

Antony Beevor

#25. The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.

Ted Allen