Henry A. Kissinger Quotes

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

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

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

Treat the past as a school.

It's important to learn the right lessons from the past.

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

The best prophet of the future is 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.

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

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

If one does not forget one's previous experience, one can learn for the future from the past.

History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them.

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

There's nothing like history. I don't make mistakes today that I made many years ago, because I've already made them.

We have to learn from the past.

I believe we need to learn from our past.

The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

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

One has to learn from history. Quite frankly, it is almost impossible to have a sense of vision without a sense of history. If history is learned, then it doesn't have to repeat itself over generations.

Some say, 'Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.' I say, 'Those who ignore history are in for a big surprise.'

It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of historical experience, as of personal experience, are contingent. They teach the consequences of certain actions, but they cannot force a recognition of comparable situations.

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.