Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from 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.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat 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.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.
History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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