The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.
Tag: G. M. Trevelyan
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.