Understanding requires patience with complexity. - Quentin Skinner

"Understanding requires patience with complexity."

Quentin Skinner Patience

Historian Philosopher British Born 1940 (age 86)

More from Quentin Skinner

"The past is not dead; it is not even past."

"Ideas have consequences, and the historian's task is to trace them."

"We must understand the languages in which the past speaks to us."

"The study of history is the study of human possibility."

"Patience is a virtue I'm still learning."

"I may be a redhead, but I'm not a hothead."

"Patience is a virtue."

"Patience is a virtue I never learned."