Top 34 G M Trevelyan Quotes
#1. Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
G. M. Trevelyan
#2. And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.
G. M. Trevelyan
#4. Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
George Macaulay Trevelyan
#5. 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
#7. I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.
Charles Trevelyan
#8. Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.
G. M. Trevelyan
#9. Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor.
Raleigh Trevelyan
#10. The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.
Charles Trevelyan
#11. Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.
G. M. Trevelyan
#12. Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization.
George Macaulay Trevelyan
#13. The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.
Charles Trevelyan
#14. 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
#16. Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
G. M. Trevelyan
#18. If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
G. M. Trevelyan
#19. Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.
G. M. Trevelyan
#20. The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
G. M. Trevelyan
#21. One half who graduate from college never read another book.
G. M. Trevelyan
#22. "History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
G. M. Trevelyan
#23. We are literally children of the earth, and removed from her our spirits wither or run to various forms of insanity. Unless we can refresh ourselves at least by intermittent contact with nature, we grow awry.
G. M. Trevelyan
#24. Stepping beyond the domain of our best model, with its tantalizing mix of solid evidence and troubling difficulties, we enter the realm of speculation. Why is our universe just as it is?
Trevelyan
#25. There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.
G. M. Trevelyan
#26. Such was the texture of her marble.
[In a description of Laura Trevelyan.]
Patrick White
#27. Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
G. M. Trevelyan
#28. If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!
G. M. Trevelyan
#29. After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.
G. M. Trevelyan
#30. History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.
G. M. Trevelyan
#31. I know how strong you are, but even the strongest sword needs a steady hand in battle. I swore to stand by your side, through all life's challenges, and I meant it. I don't care what me father, or anyone else, thinks. I will always be there for you when you need me. I love you, Trevelyan.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#33. 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
#34. I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.
G. M. Trevelyan
