Learning from History Quotes

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

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

You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.

Study the past if you would define the future. --CONFUCIUS

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

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.

A man who has no sense of history is like a man who has no ears or no eyes.

Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes.

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

Instead of turning away from our neighbors, our friends, our colleagues, let us instead learn from our history and avoid repeating the mistakes of our past.

To look back into the past only makes sense if it serves the future.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

All of us benefit from remembering our past. A people which remembers does not repeat past errors; instead, it looks with confidence to the challenges of the present and the future.

History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.

Knowledge is not the same as morality, but we need to understand if we are to avoid past mistakes and move in productive directions. An important part of that understanding is knowing who we are and what we can do... Ultimately, we must synthesize our understandings for ourselves.

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.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any lessons they might have drawn from it. Variant: What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

To discover the various use of things is the work of history.

Treat the past as a school.

Look at what happened in the Past. Learn something valuable from it. Do things differently in the present.