Choices Quote by Samuel Eliot Morison

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead.…

— E. M. Forster

A historian is interested in the past because he is interested in life... a deeply felt need to assure the continuity of human life…

— Ralph Davis

The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know…

— John Keegan

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

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

“The study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present, rather than an escape from it.”

— Elizabeth Kostova

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

History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a…

— Philibert Joseph Roux

History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.

— William L. Shirer

“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

“Every people has a past, but the dignity of a history comes when a community of scholars devotes itself to chronicling and studying that…

— Sonia Sotomayor