“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.
Chpt.2, p. 22
Principles of Geology (1832), Vol. 1
“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.
Julian (emperor) (331–363) Roman Emperor, philosopher and writer
This opinion is consistent with sound reason: if we consider the light that is without body, we shall perceive that of such light the source cannot be a body, but rather the simple action of a mind, which spreads itself by means of illumination as far as its proper seat; to which the middle region of the heavens is contiguous, from which place it shines forth with all its vigour and fills the heavenly orbs, illuminating at the same time the whole universe with its divine and pure radiance.
Upon the Sovereign Sun (362)
“Managers cannot learn from doing things right, only from doing them wrong”
Russell L. Ackoff (1919–2009) Scientist
Source: 2000s, A little book of f-laws: 13 common sins of management, 2006, p. 37 cited in: Andrew Carey (2008) Inside Project Red Stripe: Incubating Innovation and Teamwork at the Economist. p. 49.
“From food and water, then, we may learn whether sites are naturally unhealthy or healthy.”
Vitruvius book De architectura
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter IV, Sec. 10
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
Nelson Mandela on character, Foreign Correspondent's Association's Annual Dinner, Johannesburg, South Africa (21 November 1997). Source: From Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations © 2010 by Nelson R. Mandela and The Nelson Mandela Foundation http://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/mini-site/selected-quotes <br class="br">1990s
Mark Nepo (1951) American writer
Source: Facing the Lion, Being the Lion: Finding Inner Courage Where It Lives
“There is as much to be learned from a man with little, as there is from a man with much.”
Isaac Mashman (2000) businessman, speaker
“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