Historian Quote by Geoffrey Elton Download Open image “If historians are not skeptical, they are nothing.” — Geoffrey Elton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Historian History Ifs Skeptical
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible. — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know. — Steven Novella Copy Share Image
Skepticism is forever whispering in your ears. You're very new at this. You may be mistaken. You've been wrong before. — D. J. Grothe Copy Share Image
The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation. — Geoffrey Elton Copy Share Image
Since historical reconstruction is a rational process, only justified and indeed possible if it involves the human reason, what we call history is the… — Geoffrey Elton Copy Share Image
History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view,… — Geoffrey Elton Copy Share Image
When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the… — Geoffrey Elton 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
