Sara Shepard Quotes

The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated.

Any nation that forgets its past cannot have a future.

I don't think you can erase history.

Generally people forget the past and the path they took.

All of us benefit from remembering our past. A people which remembers does not repeat past errors; instead, it looks with confidence to the challenges of the present and the future.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.

Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.

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

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

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

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

Even if we remember the past, odds are good we'll still repeat it.

Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.

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.

What's done can't be undone, but at least you can keep it from happening again.

As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.

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

If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.

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

If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises.

To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.

Some say, 'Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.' I say, 'Those who ignore history are in for a big surprise.'

He who forgets will be destined to remember.