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…

— James Harvey Robinson

Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.

— 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

With supreme irony, the war to make the world safe for democracy ended by leaving democracy more unsafe in the world than…

— 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

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

— James Harvey Robinson

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone…

— James Harvey Robinson

We continue to think of new things in old ways.

— 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

Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.

— James Harvey Robinson

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

— James Harvey Robinson

History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the…

— James Harvey Robinson

In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared…

— 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…

— 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…

— James Harvey Robinson

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

— James Harvey Robinson

There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.

— James Harvey Robinson

We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is…

— James Harvey Robinson

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone…

— James Harvey Robinson

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

— James Harvey Robinson

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

— James Harvey Robinson

“During the tenth and eleventh centuries the rule of the Church prohibiting the clergy from marrying appears to have been widely and…

— James Harvey Robinson

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

— James Harvey Robinson

I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.

— James Harvey Robinson