Quotes About Learning

It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.

If you learn music, you'll learn history. If you learn music, you'll learn mathematics. If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to learn.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

If you don't understand history, you will not be able to deal with today's issues.

Planning for the future without a sense of history is like planting cut flowers.

Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.

Knowing your history can give you the tools to shape your future.

I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.

We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.

If knowing history made you rich, librarians would be billionaires.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.

I know one thing, that I know nothing.