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…

- G. M. Trevelyan

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

- G. M. Trevelyan

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, …

- G. M. Trevelyan

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

- G. M. Trevelyan

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 …

- G. M. Trevelyan

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

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

- G. M. Trevelyan

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

- G. M. Trevelyan

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

- G. M. Trevelyan