Fields Quote by Benedetto Croce

The idea of a judgment of history is secularism's vain, meaningless, hopeless, pathetic attempt to devise a substitute for what the great Abrahamic traditions…

— Robert P. George

History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.

— Cynthia Ozick

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line…

— Douglas Hurd

The world's history is the world's judgment.

— Friedrich Schiller

If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.

— Herbert Butterfield

Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world

— Ludwig von Mises

World history is a court of judgment.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition…

— Bertrand Russell

It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of…

— Henry A. Kissinger

History passes the final judgment

— Sidney Poitier

All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This…

— Edward Said

“Certainly every historian brings certain predilections to the study of history. But every historian also has the ethical obligation to suspend judgment until finding…

— George M. Dennison