Edward Hallett Carr Quotes

The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context

Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

Change is certain. Progress is not.

It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.