Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from G. M. Trevelyan

G. M. Trevelyan British historian (1876 - 1962)


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

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

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

G. M. Trevelyan - English Social History (1942)
- Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

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- Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

G. M. Trevelyan - English Social History (1942)
- Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

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.