Anything Quote by Samuel E. Morison

Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

— Henry Adams

Nothing is easier to teach than historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

— Henry Adams

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

— Anonymous

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader…

— Louis L'Amour

It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having an approach and not an area of its own.

— Leonard Krieger

I was taught that if you're going to study something, you must understand it deeply and be familiar with primary sources. But if you…

— Yuval Noah Harari

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

— Noam Chomsky

Ideas shape the course of history.

— John Maynard Keynes

I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what…

— Sarah Dessen

Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research. And when you see that you've got problems, all you have to…

— Malcolm X

“Recent fads in history and biography have increasingly exalted the aridity of chronology and fact, and have, with some valid reason, rejected romanticizing and…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

History belongs to everyone. I don't think you have to give up scholarly standards. But I also don't think you want to write something…

— Margaret MacMillan