We Must Learn From History Quotes

#1. We must learn from history, there is no military solution for the Kashmir issue ... we have to understand this reality.

Pervez Musharraf

#2. Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future.

Jomo Kenyatta

#3. I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

George Takei

#4. Winston Churchill said: 'Those who fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.

T.B. Markinson

#5. I really love travelling to places where I get to learn something new about a new group of people or a new place. Learn some history, contemplate some business ideas, and sort of get off the beaten track a little bit.

Leila Janah

#6. There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful.

Ellis Peters

#7. 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.

Nikki Giovanni

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

Ridley Scott

#9. I had a sudden notion of why history is such a mess: humans do not live long enough. We only learn from experience and have no time to use it in a continuous and sensible way.

Martha Gellhorn

#10. We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Thomas Gilovich

#11. It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.

Natalie Maines

#12. Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

#13. But history does repeat itself; that is the comedy and the crime of history. Men learn nothing. Times change. Scenes change. Names change. But passions are the same.

Carlos Fuentes

#14. What if I can't turn my head? I can look in any direction by turning my wheelchair, and I choose to look back. Rodman to the contrary notwithstanding, that is the only direction we can learn from.

Wallace Stegner

#15. Never in the history of the world have we had easier access to more information - some of it true, some of it false, and much of it partially true. Consequently, never in the history of the world has it been more important to learn how to correctly discern between truth and error.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#16. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must still try to learn from history. History is ourselves.

Kenneth Clark

#17. Words, I've come to learn, are pulleys through time. Portals into other minds. Without words, what remains? Indecipherable customs. Strange rites. Blighted hearts. Without words, we're history's orphans. Our lives and thoughts erased

Alena Graedon

#18. J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.

J. Edgar Hoover

#19. Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.

John Brunner

#20. You can never change the truths of history. You can only learn from them and use them to try and build a better world.

Timothy Pina

#21. 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

#22. But children grow up too, and they too must learn from history how easy it is for human beings to be transformed into inhuman beings through incitement and intolerance.

E.H. Gombrich

#23. We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.

A.J.P. Taylor

#24. I'll be honest with you. I'm a little bit of a loner. It's been a big part of my maturing process to learn to allow people to support me. I tend to be very self-reliant and private. And I have this history of wanting to work things out on my own and protect people from what's going on with me.

Kerry Washington

#25. War is unlike life. It's a denial of everything you learn life is. And that's why when you get finished with it, you see that if offers no lessons that can't be bettered learned in civilian life. You are exposed to horrors you would sooner forget.

Robert Graff

#26. There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the past.

Tom Turner

#27. Take a great adventure to a place, learn the rich history and make your own observation about the place.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

Leszek Kolakowski

#29. We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government.

Ken Calvert

#30. In The Tricky Art of Co-Existing, Sandi Toksvig navigates life's little dilemmas with wit and not-so-common sense. You'll learn the strange history of common courtesy and the one true secret of social success: how to not drive everyone around you crazy.

William Poundstone

#31. With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.

Conor Oberst

#32. Anyone who believes we're living in a postfeminist age will learn that violence against females - from female infanticide and child marriage to honor killings and sex trafficking - has now produced a world with fewer females than males, a first in recorded history.

Gloria Steinem

#33. In our struggle to understand the history of life, we must learn where to place the boundary between contingent and unpredictable events that occur but once and the more repeatable, lawlike phenomenon that may pervade life's history as generalities.

Stephen Jay Gould

#34. Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Aldous Huxley

#35. Listen to a name so private it can burn hear it said aloud and learn and learn History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison of all they want to keep Now

Leonard Cohen

#36. What's important about the artists we learn about in art history and see in all the art books is that they have somehow pushed the boundaries of what people think art is or should be, and that's how they've made their work relevant. That's what I'm trying to figure out for myself.

Kadir Nelson

#37. We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

Sharon Salzberg

#38. History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.

Steve Berry