Quotes About Learning

History is more or less bunk.

There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past.

Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.

Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.

Pour faire de l'histoire, il faut savoir compter.

We learn how to kiss, or to drink, talk to our buddies-all the things that you can't really teach in social studies or history-we all learn them at the movies.

Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.

The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.

I actually got really interested in traveling to India after studying yoga. I have this wanderlust and don't like doing things without knowing about the history.

History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

To study history is to study literature.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Natural history is not about producing fables.

A book brings its own history to the reader.