Ameen Rihani Quotes

Medieval learning was really advanced.

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

Dark Ages

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.

I like to learn about things. I could learn about business, which I knew nothing about. Since the age of 7, I wanted to be a doctor and nothing else.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

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

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Medieval justice was a quaint thing.

I was a child with an insatiable thirst for knowledge and remember enjoying all of my courses almost equally. When it came time at the end of my high school career to choose a major in which to specialize, I was in a quandary.

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.

Theology is endlessly interesting in that you can study it without believing in anything. I do believe, but you don't have to. I got very caught up in the 11th-century monasticism and the Cistercians. My dissertation was about Aelred of Rievaulx and one of his books.

Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.

The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.

I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery.

At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation - yet they did. Change does happen.

Centuries have elapsed since schools were first established.... Because learning was viewed as the exclusive province of the samurai and his superiors, farmers, artisans, merchants and women have neglected it altogether.... There shall, in the future, be no community with an illiterate family, nor a family with an illiterate person .... Hereafter ... every man shall, of his own accord, subordinate all other matters to the education of his children.

Many have ruled well who could not perhaps define a Commonwealth.

The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before a book in even a limited department of science can be consulted with much profit. This change, of course, has its advantages for the initiated, in securing precision and concisement of statement; but it tends to narrow the field in which an investigator can labor, and it cannot fail to become, in the future, a serious impediment …

When fiefs inspired military service, it is easily discerned why females could not inherit them; but the reason is at an end.

Study history. Study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

No Bishops, no King.

I can only perceive the royal family as an entity historically. I think I know more about the royal family from the Plantagenets in the 14th Century than the modern family.