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Top 10 Marc Bloch Quotes (2026 Update)

Marc Bloch Quote: “The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.”

1. “The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.”

Marc Bloch Quote: “The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.”

2. “The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.”

Marc Bloch Quote: “History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.”

3. “History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.”

Marc Bloch Quote: “But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.”

4. “But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.”

Marc Bloch Quote: “The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.”

5. “The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.”

Marc Bloch Quote: “Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.”

6. “Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.”

Marc Bloch Quote: “Let us guard against stripping our science of its share of poetry.”

7. “Let us guard against stripping our science of its share of poetry.”

Marc Bloch Quote: “The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known living men.”

8. “The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known living men.”

Marc Bloch Quote: “Similarly, when it is not the past that we are studying, but some set of phenomena relating to a principle still active, we expect to be told whenever a new piece of evidence may emerge, in the light of which it is quite possible that the whole elaborate structure of our conclusions will have to be changed.”

9. “Similarly, when it is not the past that we are studying, but some set of phenomena relating to a principle still active, we expect to be told whenever a new piece of evidence may emerge, in the light of which it is quite possible that the whole elaborate structure of our conclusions will have to be changed.”

Marc Bloch Quote: “No doubt they thought that by allowing themselves to become martyrs to their nerves they were giving proof of a fine stoicism, just as by living in a continual rush they produced in their own minds an illusion of activity.”

10. “No doubt they thought that by allowing themselves to become martyrs to their nerves they were giving proof of a fine stoicism, just as by living in a continual rush they produced in their own minds an illusion of activity.”

Marc Bloch Quote: “Understanding,′ in all honesty, is a word pregnant with difficulties, but also with hope.”

11. “Understanding,′ in all honesty, is a word pregnant with difficulties, but also with hope.”

Marc Bloch Quote: “How pleasant it is’, says the Roman poet, ’to listen to a storm from the safe shelter of the shore.”

12. “How pleasant it is’, says the Roman poet, ’to listen to a storm from the safe shelter of the shore.”

Marc Bloch Quote: “In a word, a historical phenomenon can never be understood apart from its moment in time. This is true of ever evolutionary stage, our own and all others. As the old Arab proverb has it: ‘Men resemble their times more than they do their fathers.”

13. “In a word, a historical phenomenon can never be understood apart from its moment in time. This is true of ever evolutionary stage, our own and all others. As the old Arab proverb has it: ‘Men resemble their times more than they do their fathers.”

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