Errol Morris Quotes

History repeats itself because no one listens the first time.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

I think you can learn from history.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you is to always remain a child.

Ancient histories provide windows to knowing current affairs.

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

There is always something rather absurd about the past.