Quotes About Knowledge

The lesson of history is that no one learns.

I think nerdy stuff is sexy. I like to watch the History Channel and learn about the universe, quantum physics and stuff like that.

The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.

Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.

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

If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

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.

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

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

History is what the evidence compels us to believe.

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.

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

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.

Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.

I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper understanding of it.

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