"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy. — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy. — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
“The dead were and are not. Their place knows them no more and is ours today... The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers. — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch,… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people. — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
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… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
