History Quote by Norman Davies

“It is a commonplace that good historians don’t judge statements from past times by the standards of their own.”

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Antony Beevor

“History belongs to the past, but understanding it is the duty of the present”

— Shashi Tharoor

“The moment historians examine the past they risk changing it, by selectively re-arranging events, consciously or not, according to the judgment(s) of posterity or…

— Paul Ham

“This is one of the distinguishing marks of history as an academic discipline – the better you know a particular historical period, the harder…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political sense.”

— J. Christopher Herold

“EVERY HISTORIAN WRITES IN—and is impacted by—a precise historical moment.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Rooting arguments in evidence and respecting scholarly norms, historians must craft stories that shape the future as well as the past.”

— Michael J. Lansing

“History, in any case, cannot be reduced to some sort of game of comparing misdeeds in different eras; each period must be judged in…

— Shashi Tharoor

“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

“Every people has a past, but the dignity of a history comes when a community of scholars devotes itself to chronicling and studying that…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“dealing with our past is not making it blank like a shaken Etch A Sketch®, erasing all traces of history and its influences. Rather,…

— Ramon Presson