Lu Xun Quotes

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

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

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

The minute that we change our minds, and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses power over us.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

Sometimes things are better off forgotten.

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

You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.

If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.

Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.

Forgive yourself first. Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind. Don’t become a hostage to your past by always reviewing and reliving your mistakes. Don’t remind yourself of what should have, could have or would have been. Release it and let it go. Move on.

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people. If he makes a mistake he will at once forgive it.

Those who don't remember the past are doomed to repeat it.

The past has too much knowledge embedded in it, and therefore it's best to forget it and start anew.

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.

There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the main lesson of history is that we never learn the lessons of history. This makes us look so stupid that few people care to read it. They'd rather not be reminded. Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.

Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.

I thought it sounded just like the sort of drug a man would invent. Here was a woman in terrible pain, obviously feeling every bit of it or she wouldn't groan like that, and she would go straight home and start another baby, because the drug would make her forget how bad the pain had been, when all the time, in some secret part of her, that long, blind, doorless and windowless corridor or pain was waiting to open up and shut her in again.

Knowledge is not the same as morality, but we need to understand if we are to avoid past mistakes and move in productive directions. An important part of that understanding is knowing who we are and what we can do... Ultimately, we must synthesize our understandings for ourselves.

History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won.

The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.