Quotes About Lessons

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

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

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.

History doesn't have a curfew.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.

History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions.

Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

Silence ensures that history repeats itself.

Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.

Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

If you know from history the danger, then part of the danger is over because it may not take you by surprise as it did your ancestors.