I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling.
The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past. [Referring to studying fossil remains of the weevil, largely unchanged to the present day.]
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
I have a philosophy that white people would be interested in Native Americans because, first of all, it's probably the only group as a country we all study and know the history and then never study again past the age of 10. So I think we have these t...
But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that potential genius can never become actual unless it finds or makes the Form which it requires.
In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. ...
To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.
When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.
I studied history when I was at school, at A-level, actually. I wouldn't profess to being very knowledgeable though, no.
The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.
I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest in fieldwork.
I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.
I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.
Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still farther, or he can choose otherwise. The choice is his responsibility, and his alone. There is no automatism that will carry him upward ...
You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.
From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious history. For it is history alone which without causing us harm enables us to judge what is the best course ...
I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.
I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.
