Quotes by G. M. Trevelyan

G. M. Trevelyan

“History repeats itself” and “History never repeats itself” are about equally true … We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

Analogies

Events

Past

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A little man often cast a long shadow.

Long

Men

Shadow

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After a day’s walk everything has twice its usual value.

Feet And Walking

Hiking

Usual

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And how fascinating history is – the long, variegated pageant of man’s still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.

Long

Men

Space

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Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.

Hiking

Journey

Perfection

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Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Education

Reading

Teaching

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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 the future.

History

Past

Real

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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.

History

People

Priests

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History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true.

History Repeats Itself

Repeating History

Repeats

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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

Fitness

Health

Motivational

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Children

Cricket

Degrees

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Distance

Doctors

Earth

Education

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Evidence

Feet And Walking

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Fun

Funny

Graduation

Has Beens

Health

Hiking

Historian

Historical

History

History Repeats Itself

Impossible Things

Insanity

Inspirational

Intellect

Italian

Journey

Land

Long

Lying

Men

Might

Mind

Motivational

Names

Night

Ordinary

Passion

Past

Peasants

People

Perfection

Politics

Possible And Impossible

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Quotes by G. M. Trevelyan

G. M. Trevelyan

“History repeats itself” and “History never repeats itself” are about equally true … We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

After a day’s walk everything has twice its usual value.

And how fascinating history is – the long, variegated pageant of man’s still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.

Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.

Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

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.

History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true.

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

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