I am both a realist and a student of History. Mankind has…

This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical)…

— Sydney J. Harris

“It was one of the most ancient terrors, the one that meant that no sooner had mankind learned to walk on two legs than…

— Terry Pratchett

“I have seen a stunning amount of death and destruction. Creation yes, but more death than birth. Mankind has learned nothing from their forefathers.…

— S.C. Parris

“The one thing that you can be sure about of what mankind has learned over the centuries...is that he has paid attention to none…

— Tonny K. Brown

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

— Oswald Spengler

“There are lessons to be learned from history — but generally those lessons are only known to those who read books, not to those…

— Brian Dunning

[Judge and Jury] is outstanding. I have learned more about the history of baseball, true history, than from anything I have ever read or…

— Ralph Kiner

I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches and beside…

— Mildred D. Taylor

Yes, I learned history at school; I know everything about apartheid. My dad, he bought the books about it, stuff like that. But I…

— Caster Semenya

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

— Allen Ginsberg

She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be…

— David Weber

All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must…

— Edwin Land

What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

— Douglas Brinkley

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson