Historiography Quote by Edward Hallett Carr Download Open image ““Good historians...have the future in their bones”” — Edward Hallett Carr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Historiography History Time
Good historians, I suspect, whether they think about it or not, have the future in their bones. Besides the question: Why? the historian also… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
“They shout that they want to shape a better future, but it's not true. The future is only an indifferent void no one cares… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“We should learn from history, but always look to the future, bearing in mind that our decisions will shape it.” — Alexander Stubb Copy Share Image
“History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past.” — arundhati roy Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has lived Is an historian & an artifact, For they hold all their time within them.” — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
“Rooting arguments in evidence and respecting scholarly norms, historians must craft stories that shape the future as well as the past.” — Michael J. Lansing Copy Share Image
“History is no longer as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis, a remembrance. It is rather a thrust into the future.” — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
“All events of the past withered to mere skeletons, veined and fleshed of fancy.” — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“One is too precious about the past, the other too hungry for the future. One arm being dragged into the past by the ethics… — Winy Maas Copy Share Image
History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
“If we can widen the range of experiences beyond what we as individuals have encountered, if we can draw upon the experiences of others… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry. — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
“Progress in human affairs, whether in science or in history or in society, has come mainly through the bold readiness of human beings not… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
“Immature thought is predominately purposive and utopian. Thought which rejects purpose altogether is the thought of old age. Mature thought combines purpose with observation… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
“History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth, it wages no battles. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
History--the product, not the raw material--is a bottle with a label. For many years now, the emphasis of historical discussion has been laid upon… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
“Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
The older I get the more I'm convinced that it's the purpose of politicians and journalists to say the world is very simple, whereas… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw on alternatives… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the… — J. H. Hexter Copy Share Image
“Historical periodization always tells a story. It is a narrative device for putting meaning into the flux of historical process - creating protagonists, heroes,… — James Ferguson Copy Share Image
“If nature abhors a vacuum, historiography loves a void because it can be filled with any number of plausible accounts; Howe, Nicholas, Anglo-Saxon England… — Deanne Williams Copy Share Image
“The hardest task for the historian… is to consider the evidence without prejudice. We all have prior agendas and tend to find what we’re… — Christopher Evans Copy Share Image
“Resources, waterways, and climatic zones loom so large in their writings that one can almost forget that people have something to do with the… — William Cronon Copy Share Image
“Progress in human affairs, whether in science or in history or in society, has come mainly through the bold readiness of human beings not… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
