Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.

Popular Topics
Ideas, Subject, Wisdom, English, Poet, Private Life, Thinking, Alien, Kindly, Kind, Creative, Culture, Quiet, Important, Drama, Journey, Name, Living My Life, Secret, Brain, America, Love You, Book, Night, Technical, Kindness, Humble, Success, Dance, Wonderful, Reality, Confidence, Angry, Glory, Air, Snows, Humbly, Diamond, Memorable, Children, Inspiring, Organization, Adventure, Life, Path Of Love, Poor, Inspiration, Future, Love, Funny
Marc Bloch

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.

Definition, Definitions, Examines, Facts, Historian
Same Author Quotes

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.

Conditions, Essentials, History, Impossible, Spring, Two

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

Cabinet, Cabinets, Endeavor, History, Understanding

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.

Flesh, Giants, Good, History, Lies, Lying

The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.

Intelligence, Know, Knows, Nature, Stimulated, Understand

Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.

Concluded, Doubt, Instruments, Knowledge, Thenceforth, Thought
Similar Quotes