5 Quotes & Sayings By Henry Thomas Buckle

Henry Thomas Buckle (1821-1911) was an English writer, translator, and editor. Born in 1821, he was educated at Harrow School and at Trinity College Cambridge University, where he received his BA in 1844. He spent seven years as editor of the Quarterly Review. His translations included Sophocles' Ajax (1859), Euripides' Bacchae (1864), Plato's Republic (1865), and Aristotle's Politics (1869) Read more

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds...
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Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. Henry Thomas Buckle
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You can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next, by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest, by their preference for the discussion of ideas. Henry Thomas Buckle
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Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it. Henry Thomas Buckle
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Society prepares the crime the criminal commits it. Henry Thomas Buckle