Warren Buffett Quotes

The only thing we learn from history, I am afraid, is that we do not learn from history.

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

I think it's despicable. I also think it's frightening that we seem to live through history over and over again. And I don't know if I'm the only one. I feel like, when you read through history books, you always judge those people in that time.

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

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

One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.

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.

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

Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and have repeatedly led to disaster. Most of these ideas are not new. They are just being recycled with re-treaded rhetoric.

Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone.

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.

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

The lesson of history is that no one learns.

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

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

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

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

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.

History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them.

Make-believe has so long held sway that truth arrives on the scene with all the aspect of an ogre. As a consequence, the real history of their country is a sealed book to the vast majority of the Irish. They neither ask for it nor is it given them.

You cannot alter the past. You can only learn from it, and … history is the best teacher.

The events of the War of 1812 have not been forgotten in England for they have never been known there.

History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.