Glenn Beck Quotes

The lesson of history is that no one learns.

There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families.

People sense that our reaction to phenomena such as epidemics or religious war is not that different to how we reacted to plagues or to battles a millennia ago.

If we compare the present time with former ages, we find that the same tendencies and desires have at all times governed states and peoples.

Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same.

People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.

Nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.

To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern to the past.

History repeats herself.

History repeats itself and that's just how it goes.

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

We are less than atoms, I say, because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we in the insolence of our ignorance deny the law of nature. But I have no argument to address to those who have no faith.

We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.

You will find that reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but that passions and weaknesses commonly usurp itsseat, and rule in its stead.

The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.

The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.