Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.
Hunter S. ThompsonYou cannot open a book without learning something.
ConfuciusA self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
Henny YoungmanYou’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.
Vivienne WestwoodPeople are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
James BaldwinLet us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
Ronald ReaganWe seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.
Richard P. FeynmanChildren are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
Aldous HuxleyAll the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
George EliotThe most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
Mark TwainI do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham LincolnThe doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin FranklinAfrica is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.
Matthew McConaugheyBut in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.
Christopher ColumbusThe authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Theodore RooseveltThere is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar WildeA man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
ChanakyaFor Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya AngelouIf you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.
Lady GagaAny action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.
Eckhart TolleHe is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHistory is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John F. KennedyOh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?
Alexander the GreatI have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Khalil GibranThe first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.
Noam ChomskyI want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.
RihannaI’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CummingsEverybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.
Kamala HarrisThe proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous HuxleyI think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.
Haruki MurakamiThe end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
SocratesYou think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.
Muhammad AliYou aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThe very word ‚secrecy‘ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
John F. KennedyThe thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that’s the most interesting: the part that doesn’t go according to what you expected.
Richard P. FeynmanI think the materialist conception of history is valid.
Christopher HitchensI’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.
Joel OsteenThe beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George EliotI graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
Joe BidenThere is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles SpurgeonYou should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
George EliotSometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve JobsTomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.
John WayneUnder the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the ‚Dust and Ashes Act,‘ any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.
John MuirCrowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.
Walt DisneyHold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘
Maya AngelouWe are not makers of history. We are made by history.
Martin Luther King, Jr.We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.
Barack ObamaI’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.
Dave GrohlThe life so short, the craft so long to learn.
HippocratesThe ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William JamesHowever, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.
Vivienne WestwoodExperience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.
Leonardo da VinciIf anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of history, they’re probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You’d probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.
Elon MuskIndeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
VoltaireWhen you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.
Thich Nhat HanhTechnique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.
Oscar WildeEverything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph Addison