The historian who learns nothing about themselves from study... - Marc Bloch

"The historian who learns nothing about themselves from studying the past has not studied well."

Marc Bloch

Historian French 1886–1944

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"History is not the past. It is the study of the past."

"The historian's task is to understand men, not to judge them."

"A document is not an inert mass of inert data to be manipulated at will by the historian."

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."