Quote by G. M. Trevelyan (1876-1962)

• Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

• Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

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

• The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

• Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

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