History, not learning from it...

[Christopher Browne]

On 9/22/05, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > But I guess what we continue to learn from history is that people
> > don't learn from history :-(.
>
> What is it?
>
> History always repeats itself
> Those that don't learn from history are bound to repeat it?

Well, George Santayana said something to that effect, and is widely
quoted as the source...
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George Santayana:
    Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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The thing is, variations on this are attributable to plenty of others.

George Bernard Shaw:

    We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

George Wilhelm Hegel:

    What experience and history teach is this -- that people and
governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on
principles.

And I seem to recall attribution of something similar to one of the
ancient Romans; Tacitus or the like...
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