Ridley Scott Quotes

The only thing we learn from history, I am afraid, is that we do not learn from history.

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

History repeats itself because no one listens the first time.

It seems like people don't learn from the past.

Even if we remember the past, odds are good we'll still repeat it.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Some say, 'Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.' I say, 'Those who ignore history are in for a big surprise.'

What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.

The lesson of history is that no one learns.

Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.

There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the main lesson of history is that we never learn the lessons of history. This makes us look so stupid that few people care to read it. They'd rather not be reminded. Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

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

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

Learning from the past helps to ensure that mistakes are not repeated.

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

What experience and history teach is this — that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.

Those who don't remember the past are doomed to repeat it.

It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.