Haile Selassie Quotes

Learning from the past helps to ensure that mistakes are not repeated.

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

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

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

I think you can learn from history.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you is to always remain a child.

Elders are the books of the young.

History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them.

We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience.

You cannot alter the past. You can only learn from it, and … history is the best teacher.

I’ve always tried to help students because I think we owe it to you young folks to pass on what we learned going down the road so that you can make your own mistakes, not the same ones we made.

We have to learn from the past.

But probably that's the way of the world - when we have finally learned something we're too old to apply it - and so it goes, wave after wave, generation after generation. No one learns anything at all from anyone else.

What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

It's always fun to pass on what I've learned to the younger people.

There's always something that you can learn and something you can teach.

I just love learning about the past and everything we've been through as people and as a country.

You've got these young kids out here that have to learn, but you learn from the guys above you. I learned from the Kevin Faulks.

The thing about wisdom is you store the past in your head.

I think it is so important to pass down knowledge and information to younger generations.

There's a lot to be learned by watching. I think the younger generation could fare a lot better in their game if they could sit down and watch some of the games of the past.

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

Everyone likes to learn history. They just don't like to hear it from a professor looking at notes. They like to hear it like it's from their uncle, and that's how I explain history.

Traveling is a major source of inspiration. There is so much to learn from history and different cultures.