Simon Wiesenthal Quotes

I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.

Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

… ideas are structures built over time, each part added by a new generation.

The advice of elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.

Obviously, the World War II guys, that's where we, we learned everything from those guys. And then we hopefully, what we learned, we pass down to the newer generation.

You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.

What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new generation of players.

Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

I think as a celebrity, we have to teach the young generation how to speak with the old generation.

I think that at a certain point in our lives we should have to interview our parents.

I had mentors, growing up in gay life - older gay men who told me about our history and the history of art and culture - but somehow, the younger generation missed out on that synergy.

Even the older generation are able to understand things when they see it on TV and identify with it. A lot of people are able to empathise with the characters. They can also distinguish between good and bad.

When growing up, there were never any conversations about the past, because if you don't ask the questions, you never get the answers.

Guys like myself and Arn Anderson, we're always trying to pass knowledge along.

I haven't studied history - I couldn't give a discourse in medieval literature - but I am a personal historian, and I do a lot to take in the histories of the people around me.

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

I learn more from my kids then I have any professor in all my life.

A lot of youth today have become very narrow and conservative in a way, whereas we in the older generation are kind of living it.

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.

The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence.