George Macaulay Trevelyan Quotes

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the lifeblood of real civilization.

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

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

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.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting for centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

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

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