Quotes About Learning

If history teaches anything, it teaches humility.

There is one thing about knowing history, and another in recreating it.

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

History is an accumulation of error.

I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad.

I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.

I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.

If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.

We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it.

History is absolutely my thing.

I loved psychology and I loved history.

The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.

I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me.

Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.

Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from reading having learned something, you yourself are bigger.

Advice to Persons About to Write History - Don't.

I'm the type that thinks if you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it.

I really am enjoying my economics class, but I think my favorite course has to be history.

One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.

Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other.

History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.

Mistakes from our collective past are like any other: they require intervention--a remedy--to correct. They don't erase themselves over time.