G. M. Trevelyan
G. M. Trevelyan
George Macaulay Trevelyan, OM CBE FRS FBA, was a British historian and academic. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1898 to 1903. He then spent more than twenty years as a full-time author. He returned to the University of Cambridge and was Regius Professor of History from 1927 to 1943. He served as Master of Trinity College from 1940 to 1951. In retirement, he was Chancellor of Durham University...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth16 February 1876
intellect evidence historian
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.
life
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
land village cricket
Village cricket spread fast through the land.
two doctors mind
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.
inspirational motivational teamwork
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
people might social
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out
hiking usual feet-and-walking
After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.
running children insanity
We are literally children of the earth, and removed from her our spirits wither or run to various forms of insanity. Unless we can refresh ourselves at least by intermittent contact with nature, we grow awry.
character names history
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!
education degrees diploma
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.
distance men soul
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.
peasants cricket ifs
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
past events analogies
"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.
summer children fun
Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis! Squire, farmer, blacksmith and labourer with their women and children came to see the fun, were at ease together and happy all the summer afternoon. If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.