Carl Lotus Becker said this quote

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.

~ Carl Lotus Becker

Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.

~ Carl Lotus Becker

Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one generation is never entirely so to the next.

~ Carl Lotus Becker

All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.

~ Carl Lotus Becker