Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
More Quotes from Samuel E. Morison:
Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.Samuel E. Morison
Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
Samuel E. Morison
The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
Samuel E. Morison
Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.
Samuel E. Morison
If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.
Samuel E. Morison
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: History Quotes, Reality QuotesBased on Keywords: lenses
The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.
James Monroe
It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
Emil Zatopek
When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.
Edie Brickell