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contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.

— Richard M. Weaver

“...history is inherently an eclectic discipline and the skills it requires are correspondingly diverse. And therein lie its strengths. Eclecticism is sometimes treated as…

— Ludmilla Jordanova

Historians have become far too precious. Their work has become ever more specialised and, as they steadily lose the context of their studies, they…

— David Starkey

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Without knowing the full extent of the past, we have no idea whether the events we can see are typical of larger patterns or…

— Steven J. Dick

To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“Sweeping generalizations are easy, but we are more alike than we are different. Our focus and interests may vary, or not, but to dismiss…

— Deborah Stanish

The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no…

— Tom Robbins

The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

“The dilemma is this. In the modern world knowledge has been growing so fast and so enormously, in almost every field, that the probabilities…

— Henry Hazlitt

It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by the readiness…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

— William Blake