Quotes About Learning From History

You might’ve heard the old saying that goes, if we don’t learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. And history shows us that, in a lot of ways, this is true. Here are some of the best quotes about learning from history, curated by the Typerse review team.

“We learn from history that we don’t learn from history!” – Desmond Tutu

“Life moves fast. As much as you can, learn from your history, you have to move forward.” – Eddie Vedder

“The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.” – Adolf Hitler

“History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.” – Mahmoud Darwish

“Patriotism ruins history.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” – Plato

“Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.” – Edward Murrow

“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” – Edmund Burke

“History is written by the victors.” – Winston Churchill

“What experience and history teach is this – that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles.” – George Wilhelm Hegel

“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.” – Aldous Huxley “A generation which ignores history has no past – and no future.” – Robert A. Heinlein

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” – George Bernard Shaw

“History shows you don’t know what the future brings.” – Rick Wagoner

“To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.” – Daisaku Ikeda

“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.” – Edward Gibbon

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” – Bar Rafaeli

“If you think you have it tough, read history books. “ – Bill Maher

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.” – George Bernard Shaw

“One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.” – Will Durant

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