Quotes About Learning

Life sure gives us serious lessons, but I refuse to sit down and take notes. I can pretty well do that walking!

I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only one bit of advice. Get out of their way. Kids are born curious. Period.

Don't go through the process, but GROW through it.

New ideas for innovation grow out of the minds of each new generation. Having an institution of higher learning that can help young people put those ideas into action is critical.

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

What we learn from History is that no one learns from History

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

History is just new people making old mistakes.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.

A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history.

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.