Nikolai Gogol Quotes

Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

The lesson of history is that no one learns.

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

[Some men are shortsighted, so] going to prison or going to hell just doesn't matter to these men.

One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors.

Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.

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.

Everyone has failed, everyone has misspoken, everyone has meant well but done the wrong thing. Your favorite restaurants, cafes and books have all gotten a one-star review along the way. No brand is perfect, no individual can pretend to be either. Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.

No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece.

The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.

there's no defense except all the errors made

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

God always saves the world from the consequences of unintended errors of men who live in fear of Him.

I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.

When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.

Perfection is a polished collection of errors.

There are a lot of things that people are doing unconsciously wrong.

It's all right to make mistakes, you're only humanInside everybody's hiding something.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.

The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.