James Harvey Robinson Quotes

#1. There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.

James Harvey Robinson

#2. History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.

James Harvey Robinson

#3. Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

James Harvey Robinson

#4. Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions.

James Harvey Robinson

#5. Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.

James Harvey Robinson

#6. Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.

James Harvey Robinson

#7. To become historically-minded is to be grown-up.

James Harvey Robinson

#8. Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

James Harvey Robinson

#9. We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

James Harvey Robinson

#10. We continue to think of new things in old ways.

James Harvey Robinson

#11. There are pastors who won't go to people's sick beds. How can people of God turn their back on the sick, poor and hungry?

James Harvey Robinson

#12. In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.

James Harvey Robinson

#13. Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

James Harvey Robinson

#14. Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.

James Harvey Robinson

#15. We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship.

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#16. I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.

James Harvey Robinson

#17. Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

James Harvey Robinson

#18. Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

James Harvey Robinson

#19. Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.

James Harvey Robinson

#20. Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.

James Harvey Robinson