25 Quotes by James Harvey Robinson

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.

There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.

Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.

To become historically-minded is to be grown-up.

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but if someone tries to take them from us, we defend them with almost an illicit passion.