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Henry Thomas Buckle

1821 – 1862 CE

“The Father of Scientific History,” son of a wealthy London merchant and shipowner, one of the world’s best chess players of his time, and winner of the first British chess tournament; Buckle was homeschooled with only one year of formal education. He loved reading, collected over 22,000 books, and taught himself eighteen foreign languages saying, “I was never much tormented with what is called education.” Though with good reason, his works were highly criticized; he pioneered an approach toward history and a scope of vision later taken up and accomplished by Will and Ariel Durant.

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Quotes by Henry Thomas Buckle (13 quotes)

“First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers…He who knows most believes the least.”

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“Eternal truths survive the shock of empires, outlive the struggles of rival creeds, and witness the decay of successive religions.”

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Chapters: 6. The Source

Themes: Religion

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“The great enemy of civilization is the notion that society cannot prosper, unless the affairs of life are watched over and protected at nearly every turn by the state and the church.”

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Chapters: 17. True Leaders

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“We frequently meet with men whose erudition ministers to their ignorance, and who, the more they read the less they know.”

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Chapters: 19. All Methods Become Obstacles

Themes: Less is More

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“Whenever someone brags about their common sense, you can be sure they have very little, either common or uncommon.”

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Chapters: 21. Following Empty Heart

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“The great enemy of knowledge is not error… One error conflicts with another, each destroys its opponent, and truth is evolved.”

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Chapters: 43. No Effort, No Trace

Themes: Enemy Truth Conflict

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“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

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Chapters: 48. Unlearning

Themes: Philosophy

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“When the gap between the highly educated and the practical, working classes gets too big, the former will have no influence and the latter no benefit.”

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Chapters: 53. Shameless Thieves

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“He who knows most believes the least.”

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Chapters: 65. Simplicity: the Hidden Power of Goodness

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“Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it.”

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Chapters: 74. The Great Executioner

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“People become uneasy, the face of society changes, old beliefs are destroyed before new ones can be created… these are the symptoms and precursors of revolution that have preceded all the world’s great changes.”

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“Every new truth which has ever been propounded has, for a time caused mischief, produced discomfort, and often unhappiness; sometimes disturbing social and religious arrangements... the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed.”

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Themes: Truth Problems

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“The actions of individuals are greatly affected by their moral feelings and passions; but these being antagonistic to the passions and feelings of other individuals, are balanced by them, so that their effect is, in the great average of human affairs, nowhere to be seen, and the total actions of mankind, considered as a whole, are left to be regulated by the total knowledge of which mankind is possessed.”

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