Quotes About Analysis

No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Many great ideas need refreshment and deeper analysis. "Freedom," for example, is a great idea but it has become a cliché.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.

A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy.

If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.

The historian amputates reality.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

To be a successful soldier, you must know history.

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.

A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.

The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.

Pour faire de l'histoire, il faut savoir compter.

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.