Quotes About Lessons

Where I think historians can help preserve and actually restore democracy is to remind us of how we got it.

As history reminds us again and again, wars are not always made on the basis of rational calculations: often the contrary.

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

They say history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

Without knowing your own history, you are doomed to repeat it.

I've heard it said that those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. To that end, I think it's worth noting that the very first police force in America was created as a 'patrol' to keep slave populations under control.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.

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

What happened in Snowtown was repeated many times in history, in a big scale and a small scale.

History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.

Having had five husbands, I guess I should know a thing or two about marriage.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

All businesses should have an element of social enterprise, and all social enterprises should not ignore the most important lessons from successful commercial businesses.

I have learnt the hard way that ignoring a small fry can be many times harmful.

Fighting cancer taught me more than I ever could have imagined, but I've beaten it.

Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to take English lessons and where folks out of a job search for community.

When you write for kids, people always ask you what lesson you mean to impart. I don't think adult writers get that question. I never mean to teach anybody a lesson, because I don't know anything myself.

Throughout my boyhood my father impressed upon me the value of money.

Every time I've come away with Scotland I've learned and improved.

I haven't always made all of the right decisions from a career perspective, but things worked out in the end.