Tom Hopkins Quotes

We have to learn from the past.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Histories make men wise.

The best thing about getting older is knowing history. The longer you live, the longer you have been in a sport, the more you know, and the more you know where things started.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

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

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

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

I think you can learn from history.

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

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

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

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

History is my biggest teacher.

History is clarified experience.

Everyone must learn from the past.

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

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.