George Macaulay Trevelyan Famous Quotes
Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
George Macaulay Trevelyan Quotations
"Resolve to be thyself and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery."
Matthew Arnold
Women should be obscene and not heard.
Groucho Marx
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
David Bailey
"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Sir William Bragg
"I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then."
Dwight D Eisenhower
Adversity is the first path to truth.
George Gordon Byron
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso
"When I was young, I was sure of many things now there are only two things of which I am sure one is, that I am a miserable sinner and the other, that Christ is an all-sufficient Saviour. He is well-taught who learns these two lessons."
John Newton
"To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career."
George Santayana