"I can see that you are a true……" — Donald Kagan
"I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?"
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10 Quotes by Donald Kagan
Donald Kagan has 10 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace…
- War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into…
- All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance…
- We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans.…
- History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
- From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read…
- Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.
- Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was…
- You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.