Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -George Santayana
Quotes :
- "Those who do not learn from history are doomed… "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it" - George Santayana
- Henry Steele Commager – history "For a people to be without history, or to be ignorant of its history, is as for a man to be without memory - condemned forever to make the same discoveries that have been made in the past, invent the same techniques, wrestle with the same problems, commit the same errors; and condemned, too, to forfeit the rich pleasures of recollection. Indeed, just as it…
- Jürgen Moltmann – awareness "Historical awareness differentiates between the present past and the past present, and puts us in the position to discover the future in the past, to pick up past possibilities again to link them with the present future.” ~Jürgen Moltmann, German theologian
- Ian Lowe – remember "We should always remember, the future is not somewhere we are going, it is something we are creating." ~Ian Lowe, ACF President, 2004-2014