Facts Quote by Marc Bloch

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is…

— Henry Adams

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out…

— Howard Nemerov

A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his…

— Anonymous

We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.

— Erik Erikson

The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

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

— Edward Gibbon

History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.

— William L. Shirer

“There's a peculiar dichotomy in the nature of almost anyone who calls himself a historian. Such scholars all piously assure us that they're telling…

— David Eddings

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of…

— Oscar Wilde

I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts,…

— Howard Zinn

The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance;…

— C. V. Wedgwood

The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it…

— Edward Hallett Carr