Top 24 Historical Method Quotes
#1. The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method.
Erik Erikson
#2. Nothing is easier to teach than historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.
Henry Adams
#3. To the extent that it remains true to itself, the historical method not only has to investigate the biblical word as a thing of the past, but also has to let it remain in the past.
Pope Benedict XVI
#4. it is important to stress that history is always constructed, not absolute or unchallangeable. Histories are stories about the past, and reconstructing the past ill involve elements of mythologising from the cultural, political and theoretical stances of both the historian and the informants.
John O'Toole
#5. Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes.
Sara Sheridan
#6. Even though the method of 'Harvest' was a historical novel, its intentions were that of a modern novel. I'm asking you to think about land being seized in Brazil by soya barons. It's also a novel about immigration.
Jim Crace
#7. If he could just have one more chance, he'd act like the man he'd always believed himself to be.
Liane Moriarty
#8. While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to invention, I simply move a detail a little one way or another.
Sara Sheridan
#9. As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality of the geologist of essential importance in the way he analyzes the past.
Reinout Willem Van Bemmelen
#10. One day of happiness is worth more than a lifetime of sorrow ... Under ordinary circumstances, jealousy is a suspicion to the person who excites it and degrading to the person who indulges it.
Victor Hugo
#11. One word was the method by which the state collected their information. They could reel in the informants and spread them out like tentacles, ready to sting in any direction.
F.C. Malby
#12. A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger
especially at danger in the social sciences
of absolutizing a theory or method which is actually relative to the fact that we live at a given moment in time in the development of our particular culture.
Rollo May
#13. I gained the distinct impression that he was blocking some flow of emotion inside himself
No One
#14. A crassly arbitrary method can be avoided only when it is accepted that etymological statements are historical and not authoritative and that semantic statements must be based on the social linguistic consciousness related to usage.
James Barr
#15. If they're going to remember the problem, make sure they remember it fondly.
Ron Kaufman
#16. I would consider directing. I think directing myself would be tough, but I'm definitely interested in directing. I might start off directing a play before I move to a film.
John C. Reilly
#17. Small details are a vital part of allowing a reader to make an imaginative connection with long dead historical figures.
Sara Sheridan
#19. Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being.
Marcus Aurelius
#20. The worth of a culture, in his opinion, could be boiled down to one thing - how well that culture took care of its weakest members, particularly its women and children.
Brad Thor
#21. Sometimes facing opportunity is like staring at the knees of a giraffe.
Laurie Beth Jones
#22. It's a wonder you don't see the zebra being trotted out as a metaphor for racial harmony more often.
Dov Davidoff
#23. No one ever tells you that: that there's no method. Writing's a lawless place.
Naomi Wood
#24. Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don't worry about it.
Neil Gaiman
