Quotes About Mistakes

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.

We may pretend we are basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race.

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.

The lesson of history is that no one learns.

Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.

All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

German history is full of serious mistakes pertaining to premature personnel decisions.

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

If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

History is an accumulation of error.

If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a series of mistakes.

History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made.

History! Read it and weep!

I'm the type that thinks if you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it.

Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other.

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

Mistakes from our collective past are like any other: they require intervention--a remedy--to correct. They don't erase themselves over time.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.