Christianity-quotes Quote by Oliver Markus Malloy

“It is not true that people learn nothing from history: they are marvellous at learning the wrong lessons.”

— Hugh Brogan

“It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save…

— Cormac McCarthy

“What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize…

— Aldous Huxley

“History is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past”

— Hilary Mantel

“Those who don't know history are destined to be tyrannized by it”

— Dean Cavanagh

“What the brats in life fail to grasp is that the trails of history are blazed not by those who cling to what is…

— Stephen H. Segal

“History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“We know little about history beyond its public displays, and even then what we know is reconstructed.”

— Mark Wallace

“If everyone always knows what they’re doing and acts in a perfectly rational way, how did most of world history happen?”

— M.R. Carey

“Why are we learning about the past, when this is History?”

— Galinda Glinda

“The lesson of history is that we don't learn the lessons of history.”

— Thomas G. Donlan