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"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history."

George Bernard Shaw on History

More quotes about History

  • "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

    Confucius on History

  • "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

    Abraham Lincoln on History

  • "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

    Mahatma Gandhi on History

  • "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

    Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

  • "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

    Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by George Bernard Shaw

  • "Every man over forty is a scoundrel."

  • "Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."

  • "Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."

  • "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."

  • "She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."

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