I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I don't know if a historian or scholar owns an opinion.

- Susan Vreeland

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

- Stendhal

It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible.

- Reza Aslan

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.

- Robert Plant

I'm a historian in my own mind.

- Quentin Tarantino

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

- Peter Gay

I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.

- Mike Tyson

Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.

- Lee Hazlewood

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

- Ambrose Bierce

It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.

- Ioan Gruffudd

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

- H. L. Mencken

Every historian discloses a new horizon.

- George Sand

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

- E. L. Doctorow

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

- David Herbert Donald

I'm not a historian who thinks Confederate memorials should be boarded up.

- Douglas Brinkley

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

- Antoine Rivarol

I am a historian. I do a lot of research, and I try to get it right.

- Alan Furst