Quote by Lucien Febvre

"We are all historians of our own lives; understanding this is the beginning of wisdom."

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."

All quotes by Lucien Febvre