History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are..

The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true..

For my second match it's pretty good..

No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others..

Success feeds confidence..

The only rule is there are no rules..

After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work.

In love there is no because..

Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the goo….

History is a stern judge..

The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact..

Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary..

When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense..

History is something that never happened told by someone who wasn't there..

The forgetting of the history of marginalized groups is both a cause and effect of their marginalization..

Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play..

Failure is impossible..

Everything in life has its price..

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory..

Whatsoever is, is in God..

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions..