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.

- Marc Bloch

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

- Marc Bloch

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, b…

- Marc Bloch

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

- Marc Bloch

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

- Marc Bloch

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

- Marc Bloch