Victor Hugo Quotes

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

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

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

I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.

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

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.

I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and to do that for work is really exciting.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

I knew I never wanted to become an archaeologist. But at school I became intrigued by what people were doing on an everyday basis in the past.

I like historical things; I like researching things.

I don't have a strong interest in 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.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.

Instead of turning away from our neighbors, our friends, our colleagues, let us instead learn from our history and avoid repeating the mistakes of our past.

While I honor the soldiers in my family, and I am a student of history, the past is the past, and I do not live in the past.

I've always been fascinated by history.

I grew up loving history.

Studying the past may suggest new ways of going wrong.

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.

Everyone must learn from the past.

The saying, "Those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it" doesn't just apply to politicians and world leaders, it applies to all of us on a daily basis.

Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and have repeatedly led to disaster. Most of these ideas are not new. They are just being recycled with re-treaded rhetoric.