The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative po….

Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowl….

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading..

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses..

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future..

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people..

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 i….

History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true..

We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers..

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..

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 ….

One half who graduate from college never read another book..

The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, ….

And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interestin….

"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstance….

Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to inter….

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..

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right..

What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every good ….

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 ….