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The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.

— Michael Lewis

If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.

— Peter Ustinov

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

— Paul Valery

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

— Leszek Kolakowski

History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.

— Paul Rusesabagina

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches…

— Robert A. Heinlein

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

— Eugene Jarecki

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What we learn from History is that no one learns from History

— Otto von Bismarck

If history teaches anything, it teaches humility.

— Gordon S. Wood

The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall…

— Robert Penn Warren

If history is any guide, much of what we take for granted simply isn't true.

— John Hagelin