Arguing Quote by Howard Jacobson

My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in…

— C. V. Wedgwood

The very day the world finds enough reason not to argue reasonably again, is the very day we all cease to be unique. Until…

— Anonymous

That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and…

— John Dos Passos

The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be.

— Norman Davies

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

— Carol P. Christ

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

— Jill Lepore

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

— Jill Lepore

People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.

— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

Do not believe what you have heard Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations Do not believe in anything…

— Gautama Buddha

“Most people argue over beliefs rather than truth.”

— S.C. Meakin

“Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, because you have been made to believe it…

— Swami Vivekananda

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr