Quote by Lucien Febvre

"Historical understanding is never final; it is always provisional, always open to revision."

Lucien Febvre
Historian French 1878–1956

More from Lucien Febvre

"History is not the past. It is the present and the future too."
"To be a historian is to be a man committed to truth."
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
"Understanding the past requires imagination as much as scholarship."

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