The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom--but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance.
I have to throw in on a personal note that I didn't like history when I was in high school. I didn't study history when I was in college, none at all, and only started to do graduate study when my children were going to graduate school. What first intrigued me was this desire to understand my family and put it in the context of American history. That makes history so appealing and so central to what I am trying to do.
Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don't study geography.
Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of organisms. Biology thus includes natural history, and much else besides.
Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study of ultimate (evolutionary) causes, the subject of natural history.
I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
I study history. I study the game. I study the NBA and the team I'm working for very, very closely.
There is little history in the study of nature, and there is little nature in the study of history. I want to show how we can remedy that cultural lag by developing a new perspective on the historian's enterprise, one that will make us Darwinians at last.
It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history.
the beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit it.
The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end
One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory of evil is not certain.