Quotes Tagged With :historian

...history is inherently an eclectic discipline and the skills it requires are correspondingly diverse.....

The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the....

After 15 years of work I have achieved as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower....

The world's history is constant like the laws of nature and simple like the souls of men. The same....

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

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Most history is a record of the triumphs disasters and follies of top people. The black hole in it is....

The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence.....

When great changes occur in history when great principles are involved as a rule the majority are wrong.....

The past is the occupational realm of historians—their daily work—and scholars have debated what....