Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.
Winston Churchill
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.
When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no
direction is set for possible
improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages,
infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned
to repeat it.
George Sanatyana
If men
could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party
blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the
stern which shines only on the waves behind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Taken to another level:
That men do not learn very
much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of
history.
Aldous Huxley
Please click
HERE for a letter from WWII. Point of departure for highbrow speculation
? Another lesson not learned? Matter for contemporary comparison? Or something else entirely?
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