Conclusion Quote by Henry A. Kissinger

It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of…

— Henry A. Kissinger

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of…

— Annie Besant

We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have…

— Margaret MacMillan

Nations are always making mistakes because they do not understand each other's psychology.

— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

— Fred Hoyle

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

People seldom learn from the mistakes of others-not because they deny the value of the past, but because they are faced with new problems.

— Ilya Ehrenburg

It seems like people don't learn from the past.

— Thomas Peterffy

People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.

— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

“the question is not whether a nation makes mistakes; the question is whether a nation learns from its mistakes, builds on that knowledge it…

— Ben Carson

Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation.

— Ernest Renan

My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in…

— C. V. Wedgwood