History Professor

Famous quotes containing the words history and/or professor:

“The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.”
—Lytton Strachey (1880–1932)

“What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see what a work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)