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George Santayana.
History is important because we get to learn from others' mistakes. The old saying is: "those who do not learn from the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them."
connecting the past and present.
George Santayana.
History rarely repeats, even as farce. Those who seek to draw imagined lessons from the past for mechanistic application in the present are as doomed to failure as those who ignore it. History explains and informs, but the conditions of different times and places make each occurence unique. Understanding why things are as they are is far more relevant than perceiving re-runs of dissimilar developments.
"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it."'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'
It means that people who don't know their mistakes are actually going to repeat it
Those that do not know history are doomed to repeat it LCKMA
George Santayana
So that we can learn from our mistakes.... "those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it...."
George Santayana.
People in positions of power are typically well educated and familiar with history. This has always been the case, yet we continue to repeat the mistakes of the past. People usually make decisions based on intuition, personal morality, and social norms, not the rational analysis of something abstract and removed like history - It isn't that "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it", but rather, "Those who learn from history are still doomed to repeat it".
Those who fail to learn from past history are doomed to repeat it.
Yes and No. What he said was "Those who do not read and understand history are doomed to repeat it." Truman actually paraphrased a quote by George Santayana (a Spanish poet & philosopher), who said "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." I hope that helped?~S. Willis (average guy)
It is commonly said "Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it." That should be a good enough reason to study history.
He was a philosopher and cultural critic. He is credited with having coined the phrase, "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it".
History is important because we get to learn from others' mistakes. The old saying is: "those who do not learn from the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them."