Top 17 Trevor Roper Quotes
#1. It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present".
D. V. Ager
#2. The law of self-destruction and the law of self-preservation are equally strong in mankind!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#3. Some people are just born to cook and talk.
Guy Fieri
#6. The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.
Martin Puryear
#7. When he opens his eyes he gives to what he gazes at the recognition no look ever before granted it. It becomes a word.
Denise Levertov
#8. We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#9. The working class positively benefited from Hitler's rule, under which the standard of living was raised till it became the highest in Europe.
Hugh Trevor-Roper
#10. You can find magic
wherever you look.
Sit back and relax,
all you need is a book.
Dr. Seuss
#12. History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.
Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
#13. The death of the spirit which threatens every man unless he is conscious of the danger and has a real purpose which can keep it alive and enable it to thrust its way through the choking weeds and thorns to the air and to the sun
Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
#16. The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.
Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
#17. for the vast majority of life's necessities you rely blindly on the help of other experts, whose own knowledge is also limited to a tiny field of expertise. The
Yuval Noah Harari
