Facts Quote by Edward Hallett Carr

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

“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

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

Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.

— Edward Hallett Carr

Change is certain. Progress is not.

— Edward Hallett Carr

It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.

— Edward Hallett Carr

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

— Edward Hallett Carr

“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

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

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

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

“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