Bearing fruit Quote by Michel de Montaigne

“His early book, not much noticed when it was published, was now on many reading lists, and the younger generation of historians accepted it…

— Saul Bellow

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead.…

— E. M. Forster

Reading history is good for all of us, he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought: If you…

— Anonymous

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been…

— David Hume

As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way,…

— Henry Fielding

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor

History is that form which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he…

— Oswald Spengler

History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a…

— Philibert Joseph Roux

“In history, as in traveling, men usually see only what they already had in their own minds; and few learn much from history, who…

— John Stuart Mill

History, in [Nietzsche's] view, belongs to him who is fighting a great fight, and who needs examples, teachers and comforters, but cannot find them…

— Georg Brandes

The history of a man is in his character.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe