Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes about History

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1849). “Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists: With Other Literary Remains of S. T. Coleridge”, p.131
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.248