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history teaches us that visions come most quickly to lone obsessives. — Alex Mar

If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood. — Edwin Gaustad

history teaches by analogy, shedding light on the likely consequences of comparable situations. — Henry Kissinger

History teaches everything, even the future. — Alphonse De Lamartine

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future. — Thomas Jefferson

History teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate's going down. — Austan Goolsbee

A distinguished historian has said that one of the most valuable things about history is that it teaches us how things do not happen. — Joe Scarborough

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes. — Joseph Heller

History teaches us every day; our understanding is the matter! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people. — Bashar Al-Assad

If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint. — Henry Kissinger

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question. — Amin Maalouf

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn't teach us anything. — Michael Lewis

The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that ... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves. — Louise Otto-Peters

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. — Ronald Reagan

History teaches us that self-proclaimed authority makes the most mistakes. And is the best at covering them up." The — Zygmunt Miloszewski

You're Professor Mills? The new one who teaches history?
As opposed to the old Professor Mills who preached overthrow of the government? — Josh Lanyon

History teaches us
that men and nations
only behave wisely
once they have exhausted
all other alternatives.
— Abba Eban

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time. — Gordon S. Wood

Peace cannot be bought, Aleron," he murmured to LaFortier. "History teaches that lesson. I learned it. You should have, too." LaFortier — Jim Butcher

I believe that each fight teaches you something, and a new history is written in each fight. — Juan Manuel Marquez

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition. — Gertrude Stein

Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature. — Albert Camus

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much. — Noam Chomsky

Just because you are innocent does not mean that others cannot harm you. History teaches us that lesson. — Frederick Lenz

Everything is repeated, in a circle. History is a master because it teaches us that it doesn't exist. It's the permutations that matter. — Umberto Eco

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything. — Paul Valery

What is a history teacher? He's someone who teaches mistakes. — Graham Swift

History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make. — Jean Bodin

The Bible teaches that history began in the Middle East, and someday history will end in the Middle East. — Billy Graham

History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice. — Ludwig Borne

The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class. — Joseph Stalin

For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn't be more wrong. — Glenn Beck

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn. — Richard Stallman

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. — Ronald Reagan

If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. — Ronald Reagan

History teaches that nations do not learn from history. — Bruce Fein

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice. — Wole Soyinka

History teaches us hope. — Robert E.Lee

In other words, history teaches us to avoid the brand of naive empiricism that consists of learning from casual historical facts. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

History teaches us things about ourselves, but you have to listen for the lessons. You have to be really still to hear the whispers. — Amber Kizer

History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable. — David Blunkett

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history. — Eugene Jarecki

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace. — Bernard Baruch

If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons. — Lucien Febvre

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different. — Arthur Goldberg

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. — Thurgood Marshall

If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing. — Peter Ustinov

War does one good - it teaches people geography. — Will Durant

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. — Robert A. Heinlein

Let me repeat what history teaches. History teaches. — Gertrude Stein