Guy Gavriel Kay Quotes

Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.

The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.

I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

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

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.

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

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

Paying more heed to the lessons of the past might teach us to be a little more cautious about some of the political decisions taken today.

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

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

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

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.

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.

The mistakes you made you tend to conveniently forget

When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that.

I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past.

You can't change the past with a couple good months.

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.

History repeats itself and that's just how it goes.

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

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

One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors.

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.

The lesson of history is that no one learns.