James Harvey Robinson quotes

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other. (James Harvey Robinson)
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. View quote
James Harvey Robinson
Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best. View quote
James Harvey Robinson
Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing. View quote
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To become historically-minded is to be grown-up. View quote
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 proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem, which is threatened. View quote
James Harvey Robinson
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are. View quote
James Harvey Robinson
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things. View quote
James Harvey Robinson
There are pastors who won't go to people's sick beds. How can people of God turn their back on the sick, poor and hungry? View quote
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 proposed to rob us of their companionship. View quote
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 on the earth. (James Harvey Robinson)

James Harvey Robinson

James Harvey Robinson - Image
Occupation: American Historian
Born: June 29, 1863
Died: February 16, 1936
Quotes count: 11

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