Unlearned Lessons Quotes

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.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't.

Let's just say that I've had my heart broken more than once, and never learned a thing.

I really do see the good in people, and I don't want to change that. That's really how I view things, so sometimes I'll look past a lot of huge red flags because I see something else in someone. Then, of course, it always comes back to haunt me in the long run.

So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.

As you go down the rabbit hole of reading into our history, you realize that there are so many things that history books didn't teach us about ourselves.

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

The failures that you beat yourself up over are the ones where you experienced warning signs and can connect the dots backwards after the fact.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

What you know not now you will know hereafter.

Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.

My childhood taught me nothing... zero.

The result of your not listening to your experience is that you keep re-living it, over and over again.

No, I never - no one ever - I never learned anything when I was a kid. Honestly, my parents had nothing to tell me - like, no wisdom, nothing.