Learning Quote by Penelope Lively Download Open image ““My understanding of the past has been savagely undermined.”” — Penelope Lively ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Learning Lively The-photograph Time
“They realized they were on the frontier of understanding, and the assumptions they formed from past experience were detrimental.” — Nat Greene Copy Share Image
“The events of the past cannot be fully understood when you are the only element of the past actively engaged in reliving it.” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Those who are unwilling to confront the past will be unable to understand the present and unfit to face the future.” — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
“History, like memories themselves, tended to become distorted with the passing of time, or worse, corrupted with the agendas of those writing it.” — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“History lessons were superficial. The past was not set in stone, and was occasionally rewritten.” — Hyeonseo Lee Copy Share Image
“The past has a way of rising up and stepping into view when we least expect it.” — Colleen Coble Copy Share Image
“The past was something that had happened to another version of himself, a version that could be lit and hurled away.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“However, there is something worse than idealizing the past—or presenting it to ourselves and our children as a chamber of horrors: forgetting it.” — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Behind me the past was darker than I had known it, not only irrecoverable, but unexplored, unexplorable.” — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“In my experience, the past is rarely as harmless, or as far away, as we’d like it to be.” — Melissa DeCarlo Copy Share Image
“[The past] has a way of hanging around, demanding we understand it and weave it into ourselves so that we can go on.” — Margaret Coel Copy Share Image
“I know quite well why I became a historian.... It was because dissension was frowned upon when I was a child: 'Don't argue, Claudia,'… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“The question is, shall it or shall it not be linear history. I've always thought a kaleidoscopic view might be an interesting heresey. Shake… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“He felt marvellously conscious of the moment, of here and now, of this day.” — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“But her thoughts are often of the past. That evanescent, pervasive, slippery internal landscape known to no one else, that vast accretion of data… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“I have a print - you can buy them at the Victoria and Albert Museum - of a photograph of the village street of… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“Men mistook measurement for understanding. And they always had to put themselves at the center of everything. That was their greatest conceit. The earth… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Sometimes we wish for the feel but we never understand that we have to give a lot to get the feel ! — Robert Reynolds 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
Learning from the best, you will eventually become the best if you have the talent already, if you have that potential. — Randy Orton Copy Share Image
Everything I do is more memorable and I understand music more than ever now. It's not a burden to me. — Seungri Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
