Source: Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States
“Personally, people know themselves very poorly.”
Ernst Mach (1838–1916) Austrian physicist and university educator
Contributions to the analysis of the sensations (1897), translated by Cora May Williams, published by Open Court Publishing Company, p. 4
19th century
“Those who do not know their history are doomed to keep stepping in it.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
This evokes the famous statement by George Santayana in The Life of Reason Vol. 1 (1905): "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Vorkosigan Saga, The Vor Game (1990)
“A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
Address at the Dedication of the National Museum of African-American History & Culture, delivered 24 September 2016, National Mall, Washington, D.C. reported in the American Rhetoric Online Speech Bank. As Archived https://web.archive.org/web/20200221020146/https://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/gwbushafricanamericanmuseum.htm from the original https://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/gwbushafricanamericanmuseum.htm on 21 February 2020. <br class="br">2010s, 2016
“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
“You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?”
Fannie Flagg book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum (1949) Emirati politician
Leadership & Success quotes, http://www.sheikhmohammed.co.ae/vgn-ext-templating/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=d2778960a5a11310VgnVCM1000004d64a8c0RCRD&appInstanceName=default, sheikhmohammed.ae.
Albert Pike book Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), Ch. III : The Master, p. 71
