“I don't understand girls, but I'm slowly learning.”
Daniel Radcliffe (1989) English actor
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Irish writer 1942–2011Related quotes
“Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.”
Elizabeth Bear (1971) American novelist
Source: Whiskey and Water
“We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) German philosopher
“We learn from history that we don't learn from history!”
Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
Often attributed to Desmond Tutu, actual source is G. W. F Hegel: What experience and history teach is this — that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it. Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1832)
Misattributed
“We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.”
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
“Hegel is correct: we learn from history that we cannot learn from it.”
C. Wright Mills book The Power Elite
Source: The Power Elite (1956), p. 23.
Gerald Ford (1913–2006) American politician, 38th President of the United States (in office from 1974 to 1977)
1970s, Proclamation 4417 (1976)
Variant: I call upon the American people to affirm with me this American Promise -- that we have learned from the tragedy of that long-ago experience forever to treasure liberty and justice for each individual American, and resolve that this kind of action shall never again be repeated.
“You can’t pay for tragedy with more tragedy, or draw life from death.” “I”
Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight
Source: Lady Midnight
“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright