learning from history

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -George Santayana (1863-1952)

I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones. -John Cage (1912-1992)

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -Napoleon Bonaparte

What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)