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sandbach99 | 21:16 Thu 26th Jun 2008 | Phrases & Sayings
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Does anyone know a saying something like, History teaches us a lesson so that we don't make the same error again.

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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.

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
history repeats itself
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Sorry, I was remembering the second one from (fallible) memory - it should be "A generation which ignores history has no past and no future."
History is your theodolite for the future
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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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