Evidence Quote by G. M. Trevelyan

“[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

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his…

— Marc Bloch

To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a man who…

— Jane Addams

As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way,…

— Henry Fielding

Biography is the best form of history.

— Josh Billings

The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance;…

— C. V. Wedgwood

Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too…

— Walter Savage Landor

“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

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.

— Samuel Johnson

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

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

— Lion Feuchtwanger