Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization.

G.M. Trevelyan

More information about this quote

Topic

Curiosity Progress

Author

G.M. Trevelyan

Source

English Social History

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Historian Academic Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Trevelyan, George Macaulay. English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries Chaucer to Queen Victoria. Longmans, Green and Company, 1942, introduction.

Illustrated Quote

A quote by G.M. Trevelyan about curiosity: “Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization.”
Download
A quote by G.M. Trevelyan about curiosity: “Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization.”
Download
A quote by G.M. Trevelyan about curiosity: “Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization.”
Download

Related Quotes

Below are one or more quotes that share at least one tag with the quote at the top of the page

Another quote from the 1940s

There's no business like show business.

Irving Berlin

There's No Business Like Show Business

Listen to There's No Business Like Show Business at Amazon Listen to There's No Business Like Show Business at Amazon
Read the lyrics to There's No Business Like Show Business
More information about this quote
Topic
Hollywood Show business
Speaker
Ethel Merman

Author

Irving Berlin
Source
There's No Business Like Show Business
Medium
Song
Genre
Great American songbook
Language
English
Time
1946 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Berlin, Irving. "There's No Business Like Show Business." Annie Get Your Gun. Performed by Ethel Merman. 1946, Imperial Theatre, New York City, NY, USA, act 1.

Another quote about Progress

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

Bernard of Chartres

More information about this quote
Topic
Scientific progress Progress
Speaker
Bernard of Chartres

Author

John of Salisbury
Language
Latin
Time
1159 1150s 12th century
Era
Middle Ages
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Bernard of Chartres. Quoted in The Metalogicon of John of Salisbury, written by John of Salisbury. c. 1159, bk. 3.

Another quote from 1942

We'll always have Paris.

Rick Blaine

Casablanca

Watch Casablanca at Amazon Watch Casablanca at Amazon
More information about this quote
Topic
Paris
Speaker
Rick Blaine
Actor
Humphrey Bogart
Source
Casablanca
Medium
Film
Genre
Romantic drama (film) Romantic drama
Language
English
Time
1942 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Casablanca. Directed by Michael Curtiz, Warner Bros. Pictures, 1942.