Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he’ll look for his lessons.

We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.

When a man starts to learn, he is never clear about his objectives. His purpose is faulty; his intent is vague. He hopes for rewards that will never materialise, for he knows nothing of the hardships of learning.

He slowly begins to learn — bit by bit at first, then in big chunks. And his thoughts soon clash. What he learns is never what he pictured, or imagined, and so he begins to be afraid. Learning is never what one expects. Every step of learning is a new task, and the fear the man is experiencing begins to mount mercilessly, unyieldingly.

What we learn from history is that no one learns from history

If we do not learn from history we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that would be worse. Alvin Toffler

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

The lesson of history is that no one learns.