Elders Quote by Hilary Mantel

History at its best is vicarious experience.

— Edmund Morgan

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

— Agnes Repplier

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

— Thomas Jefferson

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.

— Jill Lepore

I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense…

— Zbigniew Herbert

Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Wineburg: For the narcissist sees the world—both the past and the present—in his own image. Mature historical understanding teaches us to do the opposite:…

— John Fea

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.

— Jill Lepore

“I would say that my ideal of writing history is to give the reader vicarious experience. You’re born in one particular century at a…

— Anonymous

Being a historian, if only for the day, teaches you useful things like judgment, and the ability to detect when someone is lying to…

— Lucy Worsley

“Studying history aims to loosen the grip of the past. It enables us to turn our head this way and that, and begin to…

— Yuval Noah Harari

What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have people under some kind of…

— Robert Jay Lifton