Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept

Quote by Carl Becker

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Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their...

Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their...

Man is but a foundling in the cosmos, abandoned by the forces that created him

Man is but a foundling in the cosmos, abandoned by the forces that created him

Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their...

Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their...

The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by...

The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by...

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their...

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their...

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if...

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if...

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

History must be our deliverer not only from the undue influence of other times, but...

History must be our deliverer not only from the undue influence of other times, but...

The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from...

The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from...

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and...

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and...

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product...

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product...

I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on...

I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on...

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

It's a very good historical book about history.

It's a very good historical book about history.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has...

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has...

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the...

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the...

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements...

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements...

When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.

When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous...

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous...

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when...

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when...