Famous Quotes / G. M. Trevelyan
10 Quotations by G. M. Trevelyan
- 1. A little man often cast a long shadow.
- 2. Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
- 3. Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
- 4. Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
- 5. Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth rea ...
- 6. Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for some ...
- 7. Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neg ...
- 8. Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
- 9. Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a di ...
- 10. The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warm ...