Quotes by Historians

I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D. Iris Chang

Work Honorary Considered Doctorate Equivalent Maybe Works Received

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life. Iris Chang

Life Daily You Yourself Matter Think Out Oneself Write Attempt May Being Being Honest Whirlwind Requires Novel Daily Life Honest Pull

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable. Irving Howe

Knowledge Innocence Unattainable Makes Cherish Us

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality. Irving Howe

Reality Imagination Way Something Leaving Behind Apart Engaging

Human improvement is from within outward. James Anthony Froude

Outward Within Improvement Human

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies. James Anthony Froude

First Own Duty Guard His Historian Against Sympathies

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue. James Anthony Froude

Better Virtue Morally Less Aware

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive. James Anthony Froude

Science Experiment Meet Rests Calmness Always Opponent Sensitive Reason Belief

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible. James Anthony Froude

Freedom Impossible Will Morality Make Deny

Fear is the parent of cruelty. James Anthony Froude

Fear Cruelty Parent

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. James Anthony Froude

Experience Mistakes Slowly Cost Teaches

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities. James Anthony Froude

Life Our Ability Advance Learn Limits

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. James Harvey Robinson

Argument Our Consists Finding Most Going So-Called Reasoning Believing

This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old. James Henry Breasted

By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile. James Henry Breasted

It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science. James Henry Breasted

Achievement Science Natural Unity Study Since Perhaps Conception Greatest Greatest Achievement Historical Human Place Which Gained Natural Science Career

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it. James Henry Breasted

Progress Important Factor Never Disapproval Without Been Very Any Really

It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history. James Henry Breasted

History Experience Complete Framework Recognition Record Civilization Resulted Within Inevitably Human Which Human Experience Human History Inclusion Conquest

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained. James Henry Breasted

Life Time Knowledge First Universe Our Evolution Carries Case Civilization Attained Had Highest Advent Globe First Time Any Represents Ascent Which Anywhere Processes Far Us

To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean. James Henry Breasted

Doubt Mediterranean Corner No Doubt Born Seems Civilization Writer Facts Study Leave Southeast Available Now Present Careful

There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C. James Henry Breasted

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian. James Henry Breasted

History Man Science First Gave Ancient Recognized Historian Place Who