That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.
Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
I would say that the study of history is that which gives man the greatest optimism, for if man were not destined by his Maker to go on until the Kingdom of Heaven is attained, man would have been extinguished long ago by reason of all man's mistakes and frailties.
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.