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G. M. Trevelyan has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due…
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We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.
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The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak,…
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A little man often cast a long shadow.
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Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out
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Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world…
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After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.
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Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as…
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We are literally children of the earth, and removed from her our spirits wither or run to various forms of insanity. Unless…
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There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and…
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Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.
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If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into…
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The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination…
— Annie Besant
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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
— Confucius
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Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and I do not believe, that from the first dawn of medical science to…
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If you wish to attain to true knowledge of the Scriptures, hasten to acquire first an unshakeable humility of heart. That alone…
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True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.
— Albert Einstein
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When things are investigated, then true knowledge is achieved; when true knowledge is achieved, then the will becomes sincere; when the will…
— Confucius
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made…
— William Hazlitt
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Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.
— Laurence Sterne
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To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
— Confucius
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Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.
— Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
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Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from…
— Plato
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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
— Socrates
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