We Don't Learn From History Quotes

#1. Remember the lessons of history - if we don't learn from history, we're bound to repeat it.

Ted Cruz

#2. We learn from history that we don't learn from history!

Desmond Tutu

#3. If people really want to know and learn from history, why do they want bad history? Why don't they want good history? Wouldn't you rather know the truth, rather than the legend?

Alison Weir

#4. If you don't learn about each other, you do not understand each other, and you don't hide warts and all, both sides, then you're forever going to repeat history.

Warren Mundine

#5. Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.

Richard Stallman

#6. We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

Malala Yousafzai

#7. Will this generation be able to turn things around and learn a valuable lesson from all of this? I hope so, but I have my doubts. The damage has been done. And as a lifelong student of history, it's quite evident that human beings don't learn from the mistakes of past generations.

Aaron B. Powell

#8. They say people who
don't learn from history are destined to repeat it.

Susan Mallery

#9. What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.

B.B. King

#10. If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

Maya Lin

#11. Yesterday is history, but if you don't learn from your past mistakes you will continue to make the same mistakes. Tomorrow isn't a mystery. Go after your goals with every breathe you take, and the future is far from being a mystery. Today isn't a gift. You have to earn it every day.

Steve Kaufman

#12. History is an ongoing novel, but if we don't learn from what we read and see we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of history.

Tony Brooks

#13. Intelligence communities are very closed communities, but at the same time, you don't only learn how to fight terrorism. You need to learn about life, about West and East, geography, history, culture, there are many, many things that you learn in order to be able to solve puzzles.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

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

Mark Cuban

#15. Live in the moment. Don't carry baggage from the past. Put that baggage in a history book and learn from it, but don't carry it on your shoulder. You will feel lighter and be able to enjoy the present and the future.

Debasish Mridha

#16. The lesson of history is that we don't learn the lessons of history.

Thomas G. Donlan

#17. Your dream is a reality that is waiting for you to materialize. Today is a new day! Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Learn from your past so that it can empower your present and propel you to greatness

Steve Maraboli

#18. Don't hesitate to learn the most painful aspects of our history, understand it.

Maya Angelou

#19. There are so many times and places in history in our world that I just don't know anything about, and when I learn about them they're always fascinating.

Andrew Stanton

#20. We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

Adam Osborne

#21. I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

Bill Nighy

#22. I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don't romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you're suffering a lot, especially in the Bob Marley sense, suffering becomes a kind of university out of which you'll learn some hard lessons.

Fred D'Aguiar

#23. What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.

Warren Buffett

#24. Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.

Antony Sher

#25. Learn from your history, but don't live in it.

Steve Maraboli

#26. 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.

Marc Singer

#27. I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

Doc Rivers

#28. I've said it before, history repeats itself for those who don't learn from the past. Can we please learn from all this? Please? Or is everyone waiting for yet another savior to come along and charm them Hollywood style if freedom is still around for America's next election?

L.M. Fields

#29. I've heard it said before that those who don't learn from the past are bound to repeat it, and I just don't know what I think about that. I figure I don't have too much use for it. The past will just weigh on you if you spend too much time remembering it.

Wiley Cash

#30. Is it more important for you to know what happened in the First World War or to memorize other significant dates in history, or is it more important to learn the strategies they used for optimum leadership, success and joyful living?
Don't you think schools need to teach the latter?

Maddy Malhotra

#31. You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something different you bring to the table. Make sure you are constantly getting into the newest technologies. Learn the history of what you do, and always respect the ones who came before you.

Yolanda Adams

#32. It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

Steve Berry

#33. Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.

Ridley Scott

#34. When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school ... But you won't see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.

Miles Davis