Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
Five Essays on Liberty (2002), Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century (1950)
“Historians may lie, but History cannot.”
Source: A Last Vintage, p. 172.
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“History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.”
Julian Barnes (1946) English writer
Source: A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
“History repeats itself: historians repeat each other.”
Philip Guedalla (1889–1944) British historical writer
" Some Historians http://books.google.com/books?id=E0luAAAAMAAJ&q=%22History+repeats+itself+historians+repeat+each+other%22&pg=PA20#v=onepage," Supers & Supermen: Studies in Politics, History and Letters (1920)
“I cannot see the war as historians see it.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
The Resurrection of a Life (1935)
Context: I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as a large thing, one of the biggest events in the legend of the man, something general, involving multitudes. I see it as a large thing too, only I break it into small units of one man at a time, and see it as a large and monstrous thing for each man involved. I see the war as death in one form or another for men dressed as soldiers, and all the men who survived the war, including myself, I see as men who died with their brothers, dressed as soldiers. There is no such thing as a soldier. I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the brain and in the senses of one man, and I cannot see any man's death as a contributing factor in the success or failure of a military campaign.
“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”
Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic
Edward Said (1935–2003) Professor of English and literature
Bernard Lewis, "The Question of Orientalism", The New York Review of Books, 24 June 1982
James M. McPherson (1936) American historian
James M. McPherson. "Revisionist Historians" https://web.archive.org/web/20040623155609/http://historians.org/Perspectives/Issues/2003/0309/0309pre1.cfm (September 2003), Perspectives, American Historical Association. <br class="br">2000s
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
John Ruskin book The Seven Lamps of Architecture
Source: The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849), Chapter II: The Lamp of Truth, section 1.