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Does anyone know of this saying

Does anyone know a saying something like, History teaches us a lesson so that we don't make the same error again.

Thanks for any help.

sandbach99 Thurs 26/06/08 21:16

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dundurn
Thurs 26/06/08
21:23

The only thing that history teaches us is that history teaches us nothing.

Any civilisation that pays no attention to its history has no future.

Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Hammond Egg
Thurs 26/06/08
21:25

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

shaking
Thurs 26/06/08
21:27

history repeats itself

Steve.5
Thurs 26/06/08
21:30

history repeats itself.

but nobody ever learns from it

dundurn
Thurs 26/06/08
21:30

Sorry, I was remembering the second one from (fallible) memory - it should be "A generation which ignores history has no past and no future."

chadad
Thurs 26/06/08
23:18

History is your theodolite for the future

dr john
Mon 30/06/08
13:39

Hammond Eggs' version above is the closest to Santayana's original (from 'The Life of Reason' ): "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
I've always believed that those who do not study history are condemned to study geography (that's how it was at my school anyway).

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