“We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”

“Hegel is correct: we learn from history that we cannot learn from it.”

“If we truly learn from history, the current reality should not suggest otherwise. It is ironic, because history proves that we have learned nothing.”

“Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I know people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.”

“The sad fact is how easily we forget the great events of the past. What we don't really learn from history education at school is how important it is for us to learn to never forget history as President Soekarno once said.”

“We know a history so that we can learn from it. We learn our history because we understand the sacrifices that were made before, so that when we make sacrifices we understand we're doing it on behalf of future generations. There’s a proverb that says, “We have not inherited this land from our forebears, we have borrowed it from our children.” In other words, we study the past so it can guide us into the future, and inspire us to do better.”

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”

“Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.”

“We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.”

“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”