James Harvey Robinson Quotes

United States, Historian
June 29, 1863 – February, 16, 1936.

James Harvey Robinson (June 29, 1863 in Bloomington, Illinois – February 16, 1936 in New York City) was an American historian, who co-founded New History, which greatly broadened the scope of historical scholarship in relation to the social sciences.

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?

James Harvey Robinson
- People
- God
- Sick
Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

James Harvey Robinson

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

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

James Harvey Robinson
- May
- Curiosity
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

James Harvey Robinson
- People
- Believe
- Thoughts
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

James Harvey Robinson
- Courage
- Greatness
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.

James Harvey Robinson
- Great
We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship.

James Harvey Robinson
- Passion

It is impossible to divide the past into distinct, clearly defined periods and prove that one age ended and another began in a particular year, such as 476, or 1453, or 1789. Men do not and cannot change their habits and ways of doing things all at once, no matter what happens.

James Harvey Robinson
- Men
- Age
- Past