Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Failures are easier to repeat than successes.
You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.
What experience and history teach is this — that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
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.
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.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
The communist experiment should never be forgotten otherwise it may be repeated.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Some say, 'Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.' I say, 'Those who ignore history are in for a big surprise.'
A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.
Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.
Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.
How many times do we pay for one mistake? The answer is a thousand times for the same mistake. The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for ONE mistake. The rest of the animals pay once for every mistake.
Because when a guy does something stupid once, well, that’s because he’s guy. But if he does the same stupid thing twice, that’s usually to impress some girl.
If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
Progress is man’s indifference to the lessons of 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.
If, as the popular saying goes, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, the people who run our public schools fit that description.
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.
So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.
The only thing we learn from history, I am afraid, is that we do not learn from history.
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
