Education Quote by Livy Download Open image “The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.” — Livy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Historical History Medicine Mind Psychology Sick Study Study Of History
“The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see: and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings: fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and… — Livy Copy Share
I was very interested in history, but I also thought, you know, history is not that interesting sometimes, and it can feel a bit… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when… — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and clear mind. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in the social… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
“Confucius, Buddha, Jesus and Muhammed would have been bewildered if you'd told them that in order to understand the human mind and cure its… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“According to Hugh Thomas, author of 'A History of the World', the greatest medical advance in history has been garbage collection. The greatest psychological… — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry. — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
“Servius Sulpicius and M. Tullius were consuls the next year: nothing worth mentioning happened.” — Livy Copy Share Image
There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal. — Livy Copy Share Image
“In ancient Greece more than one royal house was guilty of crime which became the stuff of tragedy: now Rome was to follow the… — Livy Copy Share Image
“It is your duty,' he said, 'to recover your country not by gold but by the sword. You will be fighting with all you… — Livy Copy Share Image
“There is never any lack at Athens of tongues ready and willing to stir up the passions of the common people; this kind of… — Livy Copy Share Image
“[Rhodian delegation:] Every city contains wicked citizens from time to time and an ignorant populace all the time.” — Livy Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image