Walter Bagehot Quotes About History

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  • Life is a school of probability.

    Life  
    Quoted in Rudolf Flesch's The New Book of Unusual Quotations
  • The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

    Walter Bagehot (2010). “Physics and Politics: Or Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of Natural Selection and Inheritance to Political Society”, p.62, Cambridge University Press
  • One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

    Pain  
    'Physics and Politics' (1872) 'The Age of Discussion'
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Walter Bagehot

  • Born: February 3, 1826
  • Died: March 24, 1877
  • Occupation: Journalist