Quotes of G. M. Trevelyan - somelinesforyou

“ Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ I have two doctors - my left leg and my right leg. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ A little man often cast a long shadow. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ I have two doctors - my left leg and my right leg. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan

“ Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. ”

- G. M. Trevelyan
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