Acquire Quote by Philibert Joseph Roux

What better preparation for a history which seeks to bring societies to life and to understand that life than to have really lived, commanded…

— Lucien Febvre

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

An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and…

— Samuel Eliot Morison

“Our historical pursuits should seek meaning as well as understanding, wisdom as well as knowledge. They should center on two pivotal questions: What can…

— Robert Tracy McKenzie

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Historyis nothing other than a collection of the lives of people, some of them great, some of them ordinarynothing other than a collection of…

— Artur Davis

The historian is looked upon as objective when he measures the past by the popular opinions of his own time, as subjective when he…

— Georg Brandes

“We shall not understand the history of men and of other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied,…

— Benedetto Croce

In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means…

— Michel de Montaigne

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about…

— Toni Morrison

We must be authors of the history of our age.

— Madeleine Albright

“Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves on, and…

— Milan Kundera