Filled Quote by Gaetano Salvemini

“This is how we piece together our past. We do it like a jigsaw puzzle, where there are missing pieces. But so long as…

— Nathan Filer

“You know historians - can't leave a puzzle alone”

— Diana Gabaldon

“Such elusive puzzles recall the historian's basic dilemma: the absence of evidence does not always signify evidence of absence. In the end, we will…

— Howard Markel

So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of…

— Nancy Horan

“Part of history is tracing artifacts and looking at patterns.”

— A.G. Riddle

“In the literary machine that Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” constitutes, we are struck by the fact that all the parts are produced…

— Gilles Deleuze

History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.

— Subhash Kak

History is that form which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he…

— Oswald Spengler

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

In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.

— William L. Shirer

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