History Quote by Edmund Morgan Download Open image “History at its best is vicarious experience.” — Edmund Morgan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Inspirational Love Vicarious
History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgment on the past. — Douglas Hurd Copy Share Image
History has always fascinated me. Coming from a family that has it's own regal history, I always like places that have a rich past. — Soha Ali Khan Copy Share Image
When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing. — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“I would say that my ideal of writing history is to give the reader vicarious experience. You’re born in one particular century at a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within… — Edmund Morgan Copy Share Image
A historian should not be didactic-that is a word that makes my blood run cold. — Edmund Morgan Copy Share Image
The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not granted by… — Edmund Morgan Copy Share Image
I made a point of always teaching undergraduates because they are not a captive audience. . . . I always tried out my research… — Edmund Morgan Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
