Source: Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000
“Like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.”
Referring to Napoleon III, in "Mistaken Lessons from the Past", The Listener (6 June 1963)
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“He who does nothing makes no mistakes; he who makes no mistakes learns nothing.”
Source: The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker
“You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.”
Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015