Continuity Quote by Ralph Davis

“The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the past so…

— M.R. Carey

“The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the past so…

— M.R. Carey

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

“A historian ought to be exact, sincere and impartial; free from passion, unbiased by interest, fear, resentment or affection; and faithful to the truth,…

— Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

“By trying to understand the past on its own terms, the historian treats it with integrity rather than manipulating it or superimposing his or…

— John Fea

The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds, but in…

— Philibert Joseph Roux

I'm interested in history because it's a discipline that requires a lot of effort from the imagination. You need to put in a lot…

— Sarnath Banerjee

“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 passion for the past is clearly about more than market forces or government policies. History responds to a variety of needs, from greater…

— Margaret MacMillan

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

Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work. That doesn't mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.

— Adele Logan Alexander

What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.

— David Christian