Quotes About Lessons

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

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

History is history. What is done is done.

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.

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, but what's important.

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

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

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

History proves nothing because it contains everything.

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.

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

History - the devil's scripture

If history teaches anything, it teaches humility.

We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.

You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.

History is an accumulation of error.

Ah, Fist, it's the curse of history that those who should read them, never do.