All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small. (Henry Louis Gates)

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.

Henry Louis Gates

Related topics

number small specific particulars

Related quotes

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. View quote
John Wayne
I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them. View quote
Frank Sinatra
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem and very often makes the problem worse. View quote
Milton Friedman
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself. View quote
Florence Nightingale