Quotes About Wisdom

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

When you are at a loss of words then go with your feelings. If you feel nothing you must rely on your thinking. If your thinking is not clear then lean on the spirit. With Spirit you cannot go wrong!

Life sure gives us serious lessons, but I refuse to sit down and take notes. I can pretty well do that walking!

Monk is helper who to help us in spiritual way.

There is nothing more blinding than having seen the light, and nothing more tiresome than sharing it.

I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

What we learn from History is that no one learns from History

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

History is just new people making old mistakes.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.