Duty Quote by James Anthony Froude

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.

— James Anthony Froude

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

— Antony Beevor

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.

— Jules Michelet

A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

— Voltaire

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is…

— Anonymous

It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.

— C. V. Wedgwood

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping…

— Steven Runciman

“my desire to ascribe responsibility might be more a reflection of my own cast of mind than a fair analysis of what happened, like…

— Julian Barnes

“It is indeed the duty of historians to stress the contrast between the standards of the past and the standards of the present. Some…

— Norman Davies

“The person who expects to understand history must submerge himself in it, must get rid of patriotism, as well as bitterness. And especially in…

— Americo Castro

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

— Edward Gibbon

The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves.

— Herbert Butterfield