“History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.”

“What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.”

“Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.”

“Right time, right place, right people equals success.Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.”

“Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?”

“Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.”

“People think that they think things, and they also think that they know things. They could usefully give some attention to the question of whether they know what they think and know what they think they know.”