--- title: "3 Russell Jacoby Quotes - Famous Historian" description: "American historian... | Russell Jacoby is an American academic and a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), an author..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cc/russell-jacoby-88328_common_common-sense-the-half-truths-of-a-deceit_195751.jpg" --- # Russell Jacoby (1945) Historian **3** quotes in **64** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Russell Jacoby is a historian. ## Quick Facts About Russell Jacoby Born April 23, 1945 Profession Historian ## About Russell Jacoby American historian... \| Russell Jacoby is an American academic and a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), an author and a critic of academic culture. His fields of interest are twentieth-century European and American intellectual and cultural history, specifically the history of intelle ## Quotes by Russell Jacoby > [Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-jacoby/common-sense-the-half-truths-of-a-deceitful-society-is-honored-as-the/) Russell Jacoby [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cc/russell-jacoby-88328_common_common-sense-the-half-truths-of-a-deceit_195751.jpg) > [Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-jacoby/today-s-banalities-apparently-gain-in-profundity-if-one-states-that/) Russell Jacoby [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/297/russell-jacoby-88328_activity_today-s-banalities-apparently-gain-in-pr_1115146.jpg) > [The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-jacoby/the-radicals-want-speech-regulated-by-codes-that-proscribe-certain/) Russell Jacoby [Administrators](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/administrators/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fb/russell-jacoby-88328_administrators_the-radicals-want-speech-regulated-by-co_2752319.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-jacoby/#itemlist", "name": "Russell Jacoby Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Russell Jacoby" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-jacoby/common-sense-the-half-truths-of-a-deceitful-society-is-honored-as-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cc/russell-jacoby-88328_common_common-sense-the-half-truths-of-a-deceit_195751.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cc/russell-jacoby-88328_common_common-sense-the-half-truths-of-a-deceit_195751.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cc/russell-jacoby-88328_common_common-sense-the-half-truths-of-a-deceit_195751.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.” — Russell Jacoby", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the past. 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