Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by James Harvey Robinson (American Historian)

James Harvey Robinson (1863–1936) was an American historian. One of the founders of the “new history,” he significantly broadened historical scholarship concerning the social sciences.

Born in Bloomington, Illinois, Robinson taught European history at Pennsylvania (1891–95) and Columbia (1895–1919.) He wrote highly acclaimed textbooks, collaborating with historian Charles Beard in The Development of Modern Europe (1907,) and published The New History (1911,) in which he called for history to reflect all of the human experience, including scientific, environmental, intellectual, cultural, and social concerns.

Robinson’s major work was a study of human understanding, The Mind in the Making (1921,) which proposed that educational institutions in general and historians in particular approach social problems with a more progressive and a livelier view toward a just social order.

Robinson also produced The Humanizing of Knowledge (1923,) The Ordeal of Civilization (1926,) and The Human Comedy (1937.)

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Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
James Harvey Robinson
Topics: Reason

We find it hard to believe that other people’s thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
James Harvey Robinson
Topics: Thoughts, Thought, Thinking

In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.
James Harvey Robinson
Topics: History

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.
James Harvey Robinson
Topics: Excellence

Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.
James Harvey Robinson

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery—courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards.
James Harvey Robinson
Topics: Courage

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