Asks Quote by Edward Hallett Carr

“Good historians...have the future in their bones”

— Edward Hallett Carr

“so why study history? unlike physics and economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“So why study history? Unlike physics or economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“History is the archaeology of the present and future.”

— Patrick Mendis

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change…

— Frank Herbert

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

— Agnes Repplier

“Historians predict the past for a living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“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

“Rooting arguments in evidence and respecting scholarly norms, historians must craft stories that shape the future as well as the past.”

— Michael J. Lansing

“History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past.”

— arundhati roy

The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful.

— Kwasi Kwarteng