Education Quote by Jill Lepore

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

— Agnes Repplier

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

— Hermann Hesse

“The study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present, rather than an escape from it.”

— Elizabeth Kostova

“The hardest task for the historian… is to consider the evidence without prejudice. We all have prior agendas and tend to find what we’re…

— Christopher Evans

The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

“By trying to understand the past on its own terms, the historian treats it with integrity rather than manipulating it or superimposing his or…

— John Fea

“The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the past so…

— M.R. Carey

“Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was happening elsewhere,…

— Louis L'Amour

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it…

— Henry Steele Commager

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard

“Certainly every historian brings certain predilections to the study of history. But every historian also has the ethical obligation to suspend judgment until finding…

— George M. Dennison

We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.

— Dale Jamieson