Circumstances Quote by Anonymous

Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that…

— Samuel E. Morison

It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having an approach and not an area of its own.

— Leonard Krieger

“Historical analysis, by its very nature, tends to render seemingly unrelated events into an orderly and purposeful narrative, often leading to explanations that present…

— Ralph Snyderman

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

— Ted Koppel

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

— James Bryce

Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

— Josh McDowell

Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully…

— Johan Huizinga

Nothing is easier to teach than historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

— Henry Adams

Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

— Henry Adams

The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now.

— Tom Stoppard

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

— Rita Dove