"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. G. M. Trevelyan More Quotes by G. M. Trevelyan More Quotes From G. M. Trevelyan Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge. G. M. Trevelyan diploma degrees education Village cricket spread fast through the land. G. M. Trevelyan cricket village land The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of the grandest tunes to walk by. Or on a night in May, one can walk through the too rare Italian forests for an hour on end and never be out of hearing of the nightingale's song. G. M. Trevelyan italian song night Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea. G. M. Trevelyan hiking journey perfection Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people. G. M. Trevelyan ordinary people way If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me! G. M. Trevelyan names character people We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy. G. M. Trevelyan analogies events past If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. G. M. Trevelyan peasants cricket has-beens I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul. G. M. Trevelyan distance soul men I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. When body and mind are out of gear (and those twin parts of me live at such close quarters that the one always catches melancholy from the other) I know that I shall have only to call in my doctors and I shall be well again. G. M. Trevelyan doctors mind two Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. G. M. Trevelyan Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. G. M. Trevelyan Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. G. M. Trevelyan springs thought responsibility action
