Aldous Huxley Quotes

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

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

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

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

Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.

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

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

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

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

History is a vast early warning system.

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

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

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.

History lets you know exactly where you are today. And if you pay attention to it, it gives you a broad perspective of everyone. You can relate it to pretty much any time.

History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier. History is memory; we have to remember what it is like to be a Roman, or a Jacobite or a Chartist or even - if we dare, and we should dare - a Nazi. History is not abstraction, it is the enemy of abstraction.

if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.

What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.

I love history, and I thought I knew history well, but I was shocked by how little I knew about it.

We learn to think of history as something that has already happened, to other people. Our own moment, filled as it is with minutiae destined to be forgotten, always looks smaller in comparison.

I have always wanted to make a series of films which would be like an 'emotional history' that conveys what it feels like to live through history as an experience rather than a grand story. It would be about the relationship between the tiny fragments and moments of personal experience, and the continual backdrop of big events.

There's a lot to be learned by watching. I think the younger generation could fare a lot better in their game if they could sit down and watch some of the games of the past.

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

The only history that matters is the history we know.

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

A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in any extended sense), and certainly not revealing to us, how, they came to be afoot on these particular journeys.