History Quote by Carl Becker

The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables…

— Carl L. Becker

The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

— Robin G. Collingwood

Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to…

— G. M. Trevelyan

“History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that…

— R.G. Collingwood

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the…

— Max De Pree

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of…

— Vincent Massey

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

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

— David Hume

A lot of people would say history is important because it helps us to predict the future. I don't think that it does particularly.…

— Lucy Worsley

History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.

— Henry Clausen