"Children don’t heed the life experiences of..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.
More by Albert Einstein
“There are actually two approaches to reside your daily life. One is as if absolutely nothing is really a miracle. The other is as if every little thing is a wonder”
“I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a temperature balance is fairly well assured.”
“The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.”
More on Learning
“Study as though you cannot catch up to it, and as though you fear you are going to lose it.”
“Persons, especially salaried people who schedule their spare time, to provide for home study (or attend specialized short courses, seminars or training) seldom remain at the bottom very long. Their action opens the way for the upward climb, removes many obstacles from their path, and gains the friendly interest of those who have the power to put them in the way of opportunity”
“A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages”
More on History
“When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'”
“The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.”
“We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.”