Quotes About Lessons

Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.

It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.

I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.

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

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

If you don't understand history, you will not be able to deal with today's issues.

We cannot escape history.

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

One of the enduring lessons of history is that whenever an empire becomes insular to 'protect' itself, intellectual decline and cultural intolerance are sure to follow.

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

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

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

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.

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

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

No generation can escape history.

Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment decisions that could potentially derail a successful retirement.

History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.