Biographies Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People need history in order to know themselves, to build a sense of identity and pride, continuity, community, and hope for the future.”

— Douglas Preston

“History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that…

— R.G. Collingwood

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

— Rachel Holmes

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Discovering the history of an individual saves you a lot of time, energy, money, and many more towards your own goal(s) in life. Later,…

— Isaac Nash

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of…

— Vincent Massey

The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record…

— Samuel Smiles

“Reading history is good for all of us. If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man…

— Anonymous

The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

— Robin G. Collingwood

I'm a person who enjoys history, and history is very important to us - very very important it's about making judgement on history. It's…

— Lindsay Hoyle

The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables…

— Carl Becker

“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