Monica Johnson Quotes

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

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

Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.

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

I believe we need to learn from our past.

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.

I think you can learn from history.

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

I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

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

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

We have to learn from the past.

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

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.

I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it.

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

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

I don't think you learn specific lessons from history, but you do learn proportion.

Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated "the lesson of history.

There is nothing more dangerous than mislearning the lessons of history.

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