14 Quotes by Henry Thomas Buckle

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.

You can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next, by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest, by their preference for the discussion of ideas.

Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it.

The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

The duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion, he should noise it abroad far and wide, utterly regardless of what opinions he shocks.

Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers.