A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.

The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

Nothing capable of being memorized is history.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.

The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his audience, at the risk of their displeasure, the secrets of their own hearts

All history is the history of thought.

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.