Lion Feuchtwanger Quotes

History is sometimes hard. We study it and try to discover facts.

Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

History consists of facts attested to by evidence.

History is not only the record of the past, but also the discipline of investigating and interpreting the past. The study of history develops habits of critical thinking and effective writing, as well as cultivates the careful analysis of various types of quantitative and qualitative evidence.

I am a historian. I do a lot of research, and I try to get it right.

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

History is the greatest of dialecticians.

Historians usually record events based on the time and date of when they occurred.

History is an accumulative science, gradually gathering truth through the steady and plodding efforts of countless practitioners turning out countless monographs

I don't normally do pure historical work.

I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to educate myself: it is an exploration into the unknown - 'a journey without maps,' to borrow Graham Greene's phrase.

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

I love anything to do with history.

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

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

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.

When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But history can be exciting, intellectually rigorous, and fun.