Thucydides Quotes

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

I think you can learn from history.

History is my biggest teacher.

History is clarified experience.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

Histories make men wise.

We have to learn from the past.

We learn from history. That's what it's all about.

History can be helpful in making sense of the world we live in. It can also be fascinating, even fun.

History is philosophy teaching by experience.

A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Experience is a great teacher.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.