Quotes About Learning

I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)

I don't blame younger generations for their lack of awareness. Americans in general are not interested in history.

All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

Never stop reading. History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme.

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place.

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

German history is full of serious mistakes pertaining to premature personnel decisions.

We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

History proves nothing because it contains everything.

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.

We need to teach our children history, right from the primary school level, for them to better understand the issues. In my son's school they don't teach history.

History is as much an art as a science.

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

The only new thing is history we don't know.

More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers.

I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.

I wasn't particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn't do that well at English or history, even though I enjoyed it.

I'll watch any show on the History Channel.