Angela Merkel Quotes

History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

History will show you not all the answers, but it’ll tell you a lot of the questions to ask.

I can't change history but only learn from it.

In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over, but frequently neglect to gather up experiences as we go.

A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

History is the best guide to the future.

In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.

I think you can learn from history.

You've got to always go back in time if you want to move forward.

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

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

The future is unknowable, but the past may give us hope.

With regard to the past, no further action is possible.

You cannot alter the past. You can only learn from it, and … history is the best teacher.

Our goal is to move forward, but we know that to avoid falling backward, we must be willing to look backward and to come to terms with what happened in the past.

I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.

History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

My personal belief is that there's not much value in showing things from the past that have no relevance to today or failing to connect some kind of dotted line to where we are today, because otherwise, it just becomes homework.

It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.

All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools.

Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.