George Santayana Quotes

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

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

Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing with history. We're not thinking about history.

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

I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

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

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

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

The Greeks have given to the world the science of history; the Israelites gave to the world historical religion. In contrast to all their neighbors, both peoples knew what history is; this is no consequence of their mental giftedness, however, for there is another reason. Through mighty events both peoples experienced what history is, and by the investment of their lives they made history.

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.

We have to learn from the past.

Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.

It seems like people don't learn from the past.

The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

I think that America has an obsession with history, really.

When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

Never, ever forget history.

I think you can learn from history.

It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.

While we read history we make history.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

The task of understanding the past is neverending.