To become historically-minded is to be grown-up.

- James Harvey Robinson

Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.

- James Harvey Robinson

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

- James Harvey Robinson

Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually p…

- James Harvey Robinson

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

- James Harvey Robinson

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but if someone tries to take them from us, we defend them with almost an illicit passion.

- James Harvey Robinson

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

- James Harvey Robinson

Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions.

- James Harvey Robinson

Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides…

- James Harvey Robinson