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We learn from history that we don't learn from history!


Desmond Tutu

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We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.
ANON. We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history.
ANONYMOUS The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
FRIEDRICH HEGEL Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from histo...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from histo...
STING We can learn from history on condition that we understand it is history.
ROGER KAPLAN The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn ...
RASHEED OGUNLARU It all pointed to history ... either repeating itself, or trying to learn from history.
JOY PRATTE If we refuse to learn from history,then we will be condemned to live the life of fools.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Learn from your history, but don’t live in it.
STEVE MARABOLI Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Learn from mistake,& make worth of second chance.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it
GEORGE SANTAYANA That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their...
ALDOUS HUXLEY From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what thei...
ALDOUS HUXLEY That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons...
ALDOUS HUXLEY That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons...
ALDOUS HUXLEY We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA We are still here. And no matter what, we shall continue to be here to tell people so they can learn...
ELIE WIESEL We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
SIOUX INDIAN PRAYER Contrary to what we learn from progressives in education and the media, the history of the Democrati...
DINESH D'SOUZA The airline industry has a horrendous history in Chapter 11. Those who do not learn from history are...
ANTHONY SABINO Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
EDDIE VEDDER We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.
JOHN DEWEY If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change t...
LEONARD I. SWEET We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become nu...
ADAM OSBORNE History is made so that we can learn from it but like all lessons in life, if they are not learned w...
GARY F EVANS... I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excel...
CARY ELWES There are no lessons to be learned from the past. This is the first thing I learned from it. There i...
TOM LICHTENBERG Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
KENNETH EWART BOULDING Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
KENNETH BOULDING History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires...
WILLIAM HASTIE We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to ...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Life gives us lessons to learn and if we dont learn those lessons we will keep going round in circle...
GARY F EVANS... You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that i...
KEN BURNS The history of the past, a hundred years from now, won't be the history of the past that we lear...
WILLIAM GIBSON Instead of turning away from our neighbors, our friends, our colleagues, let us instead learn from o...
LORETTA LYNCH From good examples we learn how to be. From bad examples we learn how not to be. An observant...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH From victory we learn little, from defeat - everything.
JEFFREY FRY We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn fr...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE We learn from failure, not from success!
BRAM STOKER In science and technology we learn everything from our seniors but in life we fail to learn from the...
KOWSALAPATHY We cannot learn men from books.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Keep learning! Learning means growing. He who always learns knows how to grow in maturity. When we s...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We can learn from everybody.
CATHERINE HARDWICKE We learn little from victory, much from defeat
JAPANESE PROVERB We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to b...
ADAM OSBORNE These schools need to learn from history and end religion-based oppression. The Bible has been used ...
HAVEN HERRIN I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when...
UNKNOWN HISTORY STUDENT Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other cont...
DIANE RAVITCH The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
CHINUA ACHEBE To live is to learn. We learn from the things we hear, see and do
SOTONYE ANGA Don't get upset when they try and change or not teach our history because they're willing to learn o...
DONNAYSIA IFIELD What matters most is that we learn from living
DORIS LESSING Fortunately for us, we can learn from other people, ... We can learn that we cannot build our way ou...
ANN CROWLEY We can learn from everybody, man.
DAN QUINN One of the problems in the Ukrainian crisis is that very few Westerners know their history, or if th...
NORMAN DAVIES I think we have to learn from it and break things down a little bit. We have to learn from our mista...
BRIAN PRITTS The problem is that our world and our education remain focused exclusively on external, materialisti...
DALAI LAMA XIV Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
JOHANN VON GOETHE We have to make sure we learn from 2005.
GRAEME DOWNIE We do everything from a criminal history check to a background check of their employment history to ...
DAN ROBERTS We can learn even from our enemies.
OVID We can always learn something from anyone.
LORRIN L. LEE We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters.
LAUREN MYRACLE We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow.
ANTHONY LICCIONE We try to include school children, especially seventh graders who are taking Texas History, in our a...
BOB BURCHARD We all learn a lot from successful people, people who care and make us feel good, yet we learn much ...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Failure is success if we learn from it.
MALCOLM FORBES Failure is success if we learn from it.
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES Careful. We don't want to learn from this.
BILL WATTERSON Careful. We don't want to learn from this.
CALVIN & HOBBES Careful. We don't want to learn from this.
CALVIN & HOBBES Failure is success if we learn from it.
MALCOLM S. FORBES We're a team. We learn from each other.
LEE MEYER It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
WENDELL BERRY We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. I...
ADRIAN GRENIER We learn little from our succeses, but a lot from our failures
ARAB PROVERB We learn not from pain, but from our choices for handling it.
JIM GENOVESE I'm glad they did it because we can learn. Something might happen in the playoffs and we have to lea...
JAROMIR JAGR The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
PROVERB The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
AMERICAN PROVERB We often learn as much if not more from stupidity as we do from genious.
IAN MACDONALD We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.
SOURCE UNKNOWN We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.
SOURCE UNKNOWN The American president's remarks not only showed that he does not have the ability to learn from his...
MOHAMMAD KHATAMI We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
UNKNOWN We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD We all learn from our mistakes and others misfortune.
CATHY HAYNES We all learn from our mistakes and others' misfortune.
CATHY HAYNES It hurts. We can learn a lot from this.
JUSTIN GAGE We love it. We learn from them at the same time they are learning from us.
DEBBIE MILLAN The only thing we learn from a new election is we learned nothing from the old
GERALD BARZAN We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
ANTON CHEKHOV Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

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MATTHEW DESMOND If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dy...
MATTHEW DESMOND Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
PAUL DESMOND Child Protection Services can get all up in your business if you have kids. Just strictly from a bus...
MATTHEW DESMOND The cost of evictions varies a lot, but it could be for landlords an expensive process as well. Amon...
MATTHEW DESMOND You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potenti...
MATTHEW DESMOND Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provo...
MATTHEW DESMOND Since evictions go through court, it has a record that comes with it, and many landlords that I spen...
MATTHEW DESMOND Hundreds of data-mining companies sell landlords tenant-screening reports that list past evictions a...
MATTHEW DESMOND If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a la...
MATTHEW DESMOND I met a landlord who will pay you to move at the end of the week and let you use his van. That's...
MATTHEW DESMOND Tenants don't have any right to court-appointed attorneys in civil court, so they're either ...
MATTHEW DESMOND It's great isn't it, all this exercise lark? I used to laugh at people on treadmills; now I ...
RICHARD DESMOND I think what's very disturbing about the present crisis is that there are a number of things going o...
DESMOND LACHMAN Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but...
DESMOND DEKKER When I left Milwaukee, and I had all these stories. I felt so responsible for people. It's a hec...
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