It has been said that the historian is the avenger, and that standing as a judge between the parties and rivalries and causes of bygone generations h….

Concerning alchemy it is more difficult to discover the actual state of things, in that the historians who specialise in this field seem sometimes to….

It is not a sin to introduce a personal bias that can be recognized and discounted. The sin in historical composition is the organization of the stor….

The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves..

Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one which seems to me to h….

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too deligh….

About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of m….

If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance..

Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else..

Very strange bridges are used to make the passage from one state of things to another; we may lose sight of them in our surveys of general history, b….

The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the wo….

[History is] the very servant of the servants of God, the drudge of all the drudges..

It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere ep….

Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in….

The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to praise revolutions provid….

The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be….

In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all..