We find it hard to believe that other people’s thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
About James Harvey Robinson
James Harvey Robinsonwas an American scholar of history who, with Charles Austin Beard, founded New History, a disciplinary approach that attempts to use history to understand contemporary problems, which greatly broadened the scope of historical scholarship in relation to the social sciences.
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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.
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Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.
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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.
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We find it hard to believe that other people’s thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
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Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
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