--- title: "3 George Albert Wells Quotes - Famous Historian" description: "British Professor of German and rationalist (1926-2017)... | George Albert Wells was an English scholar who served as Professor of German at Birkbeck, U..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b117/author-george-albert-wells-83116.jpg" --- ![Portrait of George Albert Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b117/author-george-albert-wells-83116.jpg) # George Albert Wells (1926–2017) Historian **3** quotes in **38** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet George Albert Wells was a historian. ## Quick Facts About George Albert Wells Born May 22, 1926 Died January 23, 2017 Profession Historian ## About George Albert Wells British Professor of German and rationalist (1926-2017)... \| George Albert Wells was an English scholar who served as Professor of German at Birkbeck, University of London. After writing books about famous European intellectuals, such as Johann Gottfried Herder and Franz Grillparzer, he turned to the study of the historicity of Jesus, starting with his book T ## Quotes by George Albert Wells > [People who cannot think in an orderly way are apt to suppose themselves more imaginative than others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-albert-wells/people-who-cannot-think-in-an-orderly-way-are-apt-to-suppose/) George Albert Wells [Imaginative](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/imaginative/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af9/george-albert-wells-83116_imaginative_people-who-cannot-think-in-an-orderly-wa_1403937.png) > [“Moreover, it is not just that the early documents are silent about so much of Jesus that came to be recorded in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-albert-wells/moreover-it-is-not-just-that-the-early-documents-are-silent-about-so/) George Albert Wells [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7df/george-albert-wells-83116_biblical-criticism_moreover-it-is-not-just-that-the-early-d_1502721.jpg) > [...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-albert-wells/people-today-are-so-accustomed-to-pretentious-nonsense-that-they-see/) George Albert Wells [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/944/george-albert-wells-83116_accustomed_people-today-are-so-accustomed-to-preten_1726843.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-albert-wells/#itemlist", "name": "George Albert Wells Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "People who cannot think in an orderly way are apt to suppose themselves more imaginative than others.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Albert Wells" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-albert-wells/people-who-cannot-think-in-an-orderly-way-are-apt-to-suppose/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af9/george-albert-wells-83116_imaginative_people-who-cannot-think-in-an-orderly-wa_1403937.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af9/george-albert-wells-83116_imaginative_people-who-cannot-think-in-an-orderly-wa_1403937.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af9/george-albert-wells-83116_imaginative_people-who-cannot-think-in-an-orderly-wa_1403937.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“People who cannot think in an orderly way are apt to suppose themselves more imaginative than others.” — George Albert Wells", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Moreover, it is not just that the early documents are silent about so much of Jesus that came to be recorded in the gospels, but that they view him in a substantially different way -- as a basically supernatural personage only obscurely on Earth as a man at some unspecified period in the past, 'emptied' then of all his supernatural attributes (Phil.2:7), and certainly not a worker of prodigious miracles which made him famous throughout 'all Syria' (Mt.4:24). 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