Anonymous Quotes

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

If you don't pay attention to history, you're destined to repeat it.

History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.

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

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

How many lessons there are and how little they are taken

I'm the type that thinks if you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it.

The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten.

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

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

Progress is man’s indifference to the lessons of history.

Happily for the busy lunatics who rule over us, we are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing.

Without knowing your own history, you are doomed to repeat it.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

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

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

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

People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

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

No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most of our schools and colleges today pay little attention to history. And many of our current policies repeat mistakes that were made, time and again, in the past with disastrous results.

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.