Logo
History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expoun

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves. – George Macaulay Trevelyan

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
History
category

The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients their place, as I have argued. But their place is not simply back there in a separate and foreign country; it is assimilated in ourselves, and resurrected into an ever-changing present. – David Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country

Category:
History

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. – Aristotle

Category:
History

History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity. – Dexter Perkins

Category:
History

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. – Thomas Huxley

Category:
History

Random Quotes

You must learn to make the whole world your school. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Category:
Experience

This June, Ill travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage. – Jacques Pepin

Category:
Food

Evolution never looks to the future. – Richard Dawkins

Category:
Future

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. – George Washington

Category:
Government