Historian Quote by Fritz Stern Download Open image “[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.” — Fritz Stern ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Historian History Masters Past Time Two Two masters
“[T]he best historians...take a thorough knowledge of the evidence of their subject and combine it with a sharp intellect, the warmest understanding of people… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead.… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“A historian ought to be exact, sincere and impartial; free from passion, unbiased by interest, fear, resentment or affection; and faithful to the truth,… — Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Copy Share Image
In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
[History is] the very servant of the servants of God, the drudge of all the drudges. — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
Life and study have persuaded me of the openness of history. There is no inevitability in history. Thinking about what might have happened, what… — Fritz Stern 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
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets,… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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