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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.


Aldous Huxley

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ALDOUS HUXLEY Sometimes we learn the lessons of life through pain, melancholy and the vicissitude of life and some...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry...
TED NUGENT Sometimes we learn the lessons of life through pain, melancholy and the vicissitude of life and some...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If difficult times teach us the most important lessons, we should then learn to read difficult books...
JOYCE RACHELLE To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, homini...
RICHARD LEAKEY The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History ...
MAX LERNER If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eye...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal pow...
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WILLIAM J. DURANT One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing ...
WILL DURANT One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing...
ARIEL DURANT One of the lessons of history is that 'nothing' is often a good thing to do and always a clever thin...
WILL DURANT One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing ...
ARIEL DURANT One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing ...
WILL DURANT History is not nostalgic art, but history is ibrah, lessons, that we can pull to the present, to pre...
AHMAD FUADI Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.
EUGENE JARECKI The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
WOODROW WILSON The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
EDWIN POWELL HUBBLE The history of mankind is a history of war.
MIKE LOVE History has been the history of warfare.
GODFREY REGGIO We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history.
ANONYMOUS One of the most powerful lessons silence teach us is to ponder
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious t...
DOUGLAS HURD It is important to stay in a tough situations long enough to learn the lessons that it has to teach....
TERENCE T. GORSKI It's very important to learn quick lessons from your failures, very important to recognize sympt...
N. R. NARAYANA MURTHY Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be r...
SHANNON L. ALDER In nature we can learn life's most important lessons.
SUNIL KHEMANEY This is utter nonsense, entirely unrealistic and contrary to the lessons of recent history.
AJAI SAHNI History teaches us lessons we should not forget.
LINDA WADE Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.
SHANIA TWAIN The hardest lessons teach us the most.
JIM GENOVESE God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn i...
STANLEY LINDQUIST 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... All the lessons you learn in film school from the people you hate are always the ones that are impor...
GLENN FICARRA The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY Goodrich was the biggest acquisition in the history of aerospace.
LOUIS R. CHENEVERT The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER If you take nature as a teacher she will teach you exactly the lessons you had already decided to le...
C.S. LEWIS Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
JAMES C. DOBSON Keep learning! Learning means growing. He who always learns knows how to grow in maturity. When we s...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The greatest secret of life is to hear lessons and not teach them.
VIKRANT PARSAI The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized pe...
GEORGE F. KENNAN Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. WELLS Of course the decision to commit British forces in Iraq was, for many MPs, a wrenching choice. Howev...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER One of the lessons you can learn from wildly successful people is that they embrace contrarianism.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned t...
DON WILLIAMS JR Learning history is easy. Learning its lessons is almost impossible.
UNKNOWN Not only do our trials become classrooms that teach us life’s most profound lessons, they add joy ...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Not only do our trials become classrooms that teach us life’s most profound lessons, they add joy ...
AULIQ-ICE The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
FRIEDRICH HEGEL when you make numerous mistakes, don't worry. You have numerous lessons of life in your bosom. The m...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I think I was the youngest, fastest-promoted buyer in the history of Bloomingdale's.
MICKEY DREXLER Don’t be afraid to make mistakes – they teach important lessons.
TERENCE T. GORSKI God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn ...
C.S. LEWIS If life keeps asking you the same questions....You are NOT learning the lessons...
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
SEAMUS HEANEY One of the most important lessons she'd recently learned was that looking strong and confident was s...
STUART HILL Rachael Ray is probably the most watched kitchen personality in the history of American television.
BILL BUFORD What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?
PETER SHAFFER Stay in a tough situation long enough to learn the lessons that it has to teach. When it's done -- i...
TERENCE T. GORSKI We serve as a research center. But our most important role is education. We teach the history of the...
JAMES DORAN The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) m...
STEPHEN KING NATO is the most important military alliance in world history.
MITCH MCCONNELL One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think glob...
MIKE LOVE The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I support the coaches 110 percent. They're Christian men. Whatever they say, I'll do. It's a lesson ...
A.J. NICHOLSON Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history...
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CHARLOTTE EVANS Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU The past ignorance has great lessons for us in our present day. Until we take real lessons from the ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We learn from history that we don't learn from history!
DESMOND TUTU Who will remember Anna Wintour in the history of fashion? No one.
AZZEDINE ALAIA The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
FELIX FRANKFURTER The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
KARL MARX Living in your genome is the history of our species.
BARRY SCHULER I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
TIM VINE March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy.
JOSE MARIA AZNAR No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly ...
JOHN BROWN GORDON As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place h...
HARPER LEE Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
JACK KLUGMAN International politics is never about democracy and human rights. It's about the interests of states...
EGON BAHR It is the worst people in your life that teach you the best lessons.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II All things are lessons that God would have us learn.
IYANLA VANZANT What they teach you as history is mythology, and true mythology is far from fantasy - every kind rev...
SUZY KASSEM I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to...
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER To make one mistake, and then fix it. It shows, a sign that you have understood
the lesson.
DEYTH BANGER To his own children he was at once the ultimate voice of authority and, when time allowed, their mos...
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CAROL JORDAN It is extremely disappointing that BP Products failed to learn from the lessons of Texas City to ass...
EDWIN FOULKE We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it cla...
ALDOUS HUXLEY At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva...
ALDOUS HUXLEY An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a v...
ALDOUS HUXLEY So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol....
ALDOUS HUXLEY Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
ALDOUS HUXLEY I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously bor...
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