With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, a… — Samuel E. Morison

With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.

Samuel E. MorisonHistorian · American · 1887 – 1976

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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better. — Henry Ward Beecher
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. — Voltaire
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. — Muhammad Iqbal
If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife. — Samuel E. Morison
Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses. — Samuel E. Morison
Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances. — Samuel E. Morison