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Historical Knowledge Quotes

Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art Picture Quote #1

Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world Picture Quote #1

The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science Picture Quote #1

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age Picture Quote #1

All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation… for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place Picture Quote #1

A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with the assumption that there are spheres of thought in which it is impossible to conceive of absolute truth existing independently of the values and position of the subject and unrelated to the social context Picture Quote #1

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The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions Picture Quote #1

Risk models are a substitute for historical knowledge, because they tend to work with just three years’ worth of data. But three years is not a long time in financial history Picture Quote #1

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Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art. (Historical Knowledge Quotes) Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world (Historical Knowledge Quotes) The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science (Historical Knowledge Quotes) There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age (Historical Knowledge Quotes) All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation… for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place (Historical Knowledge Quotes) A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with the assumption that there are spheres of thought in which it is impossible to conceive of absolute truth existing independently of the values and position of the subject and unrelated to the social context (Historical Knowledge Quotes) The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions (Historical Knowledge Quotes) Risk models are a substitute for historical knowledge, because they tend to work with just three years’ worth of data. But three years is not a long time in financial history (Historical Knowledge Quotes)