History Quote by Oscar Handlin

“The prevailing taste of the public for anecdote has been censured and ridiculed by critics, who aspire to the character of superior wisdom: but…

— Maria Edgeworth

Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up…

— Lion Feuchtwanger

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

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

— Richard Dawkins

“With sufficient perspective, nothing is good or bad. The historian who ventures to judge the past is writing journalism in another century.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“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

“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

Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of the superiority…

— Leo Strauss

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.

— Jill Lepore

“There is almost no human action or decision that cannot be made to look flawed and less sensible in the misleading light of hindsight.…

— Sidney Dekker

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.

— Jill Lepore

I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources…

— Jane Austen