Eamon Duffy Quotes

United Kingdom, Historian
February 9, 1947

Eamon Duffy FBA FSA KSG (born 9 February 1947) is an Irish historian and academic. He is Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow and former President of Magdalene College.

Also known as Academic

History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.

Eamon Duffy
- History
- Tangled
- Messy
Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.

Eamon Duffy
- History
- Past
- Present

We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide are in nobody's pocket... We should let nobody tell us that they know all that it contains, or try to prescribe or constrain in advance what it has to tell us.

Eamon Duffy
- Heart
- History
- Past
If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

Eamon Duffy
- History
- Failure
- Knowing