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Quotes About Learning

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.
~ David P. Thelen
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
~ Matthew Arnold
To be a successful soldier, you must know history.
~ George S. Patton
The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
~ Czeslaw Milosz
Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.
~ James W. Loewen
You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.
~ Amin Maalouf
History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.
~ Etienne Gilson
We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
~ Vinton Cerf
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
~ John Buchan
I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.
~ George Burns
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
~ Timothy Leary
I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.
~ Lou Gerstner
If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.
~ Lucien Febvre
An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.
~ Henry Ford
History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.
~ Jean Bodin
The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
~ James A. Garfield
The saying, "Those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it" doesn't just apply to politicians and world leaders, it applies to all of us on a daily basis.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.
~ W. G. Sebald
Those who do not know history will forever remain children
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Don't know much about history Don't know much biology.
~ Sam Cooke
Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
~ Will Durant