Challenges Quote by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.

— Niall Ferguson

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

The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again

— George Santayana

“Memory is not history, even though memories may be among the evidence a historian examines in constructing a historical past.”

— Terry Nardin

Memory is a poet, not an historian.

— Marie Howe

“History and memory aren't the same thing[...] History doesn't abide acts of the imagination but memories depend on it. And memories are as much…

— Peter Geye

He who cannot remember the past is condemned to remember the past. Or something.

— Sarah Palin

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

— William L. Shirer

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

— Anonymous

“Historians concluded that in the twentieth century about sixty genocides had occurred in the world, but not all of them entered historical memory. Historians…

— Patrik Ouředník

“Such elusive puzzles recall the historian's basic dilemma: the absence of evidence does not always signify evidence of absence. In the end, we will…

— Howard Markel

The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.

— Gaetano Salvemini