Quotes About Lessons

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.

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.

If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.

If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

History is absolutely my thing.

The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.

There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

History! Read it and weep!

History is the seed bed of the future.

History's a resource.

History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.

Advice to Persons About to Write History - Don't.

The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

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

History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.

If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.

you don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago,

History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.

History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.

History is philosophy learned from examples.

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

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.