James Harvey Robinson
James Harvey Robinson
James Harvey Robinson was an American historian, who co-founded New History, which greatly broadened the scope of historical scholarship in relation to the social sciences. Jay Green concludes:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth29 June 1863
CountryUnited States of America
god pastors people turn
There are pastors who won't go to people's sick beds. How can people of God turn their back on the sick, poor and hungry?
brave courage escaping ideas largely last standards ways
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
spiritual pain study
Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions.
two-sides political assuming
Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.
self-esteem passion ideas
We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem, which is threatened.
self errors groups
Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.
silly believe people
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
success doe way
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 may realizing
Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
everyday fool facts
I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.
self interesting
There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.
men long found
Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.
To become historically-minded is to be grown-up.
passion trying belief
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.