Quotes Tagged With :historiography

Our outsideness, after all, is a major part of what makes us different from the direct participants in....

China failed to maintain its technological lead, and a similar failure throughout Asia to take advantage....

Good historians...have the future in their bones

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

The person who expects to understand history must submerge himself in it, must get rid of patriotism,....

Historical periodization always tells a story. It is a narrative device for putting meaning into the....

The bible is history. Remember that it is not a book. It is a library. It contains many kinds of books,....

It is a truism, easily forgotten, that the West, in its modern phase, has not stood still. Also easily....

I might, indeed, read history; but whenever I attempt to do so, I am to tell you the truth, driven from....

Indebtedness among historians is a peculiar thing, however. We don’t simply, in mechanical fashion,....