Vartan Gregorian Quotes

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

We have preserved the Book, and the Book has preserved us.

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

A library implies an act of faith.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are preserved by quotations.

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.

Anyone who writes anything on any subject is standing on the shoulders of 900 people who've come before you.

I think that our comfort is in our history.

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for all of us. Without books, civilisation falls into the dark ages.

I'm a storyteller. I do this for the next generations. They have to know what traditional alpinism is all about.