Lessons Quotes

"There are no regrets in life, just lessons."

Jennifer Aniston

"History is philosophy teaching by examples."

Thucydides

"History is a vast early warning system."

Norman Cousins

"What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history."

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

"History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided."

Konrad Adenauer

"History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days."

Claude Bowers

"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience."

"The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post."

L. Thomas Holdcroft

"We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors."

George Washington

"History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is."

Thomas Jefferson

"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future."

Frederick Douglass

"History is the study of other people's mistakes."

Philip Guedalla

"History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong."

James Anthony Froude

"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."

Andre Gide