Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes

History is philosophy teaching by experience.

I think you can learn from history.

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

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

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

History some truths contains, which well may serve for lessons.

We have to learn from the past.

Study the past if you would define the future. --CONFUCIUS

If history teaches anything, it teaches humility.

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

What are stories for if we don't learn from them?

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

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

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

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

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