Geoffrey Elton Quotes

#1. Since historical reconstruction is a rational process, only justified and indeed possible if it involves the human reason, what we call history is the mess we call life reduced to some order. pattern and possibly purpose.

Geoffrey Elton

#2. Save the rainforest for your loved ones

Vivienne Westwood

#3. If historians are not skeptical, they are nothing.

Geoffrey Elton

#4. History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.

Geoffrey Elton

#5. Or the ploy Dahmer used - that classic had proven to do the job in all the decades following. Lone woman struggling to lift something heavy into the back of a vehicle. Can

J.D. Robb

#6. The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

Horace

#7. A good problem should be more than a mere exercise; it should be challenging and not too easily solved by the student, and it should require some "dreaming" time.

Howard Whitley Eves

#8. How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.

Bjork

#9. The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.

Geoffrey Elton

#10. Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law ... It is the parent, and not the child of society; the source of civility and a sort of seminary of the republic.

Joseph Story