That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Aldous Huxley

The Lessons of History

14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 7th 2011

14 Responses to “Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week”

  1. Claude says:

    We should have learned after bows and arrows…Interesting photo!

  2. Sean Jeating says:

    That is true. In general.
    To generalize is not good, though. In general, anyway.
    There might, after all, be (a few) individuals who did learn from history, hm?
    Okay, a minority.
    And we do live in a democracy, after all, don’t we?
    Thus, …

  3. Ginnie says:

    Absolutely spot-on quote, Cherry! Sad but true, I’m afraid. :(

  4. jameshigham says:

    Precisely the point of certain posts coming up.

  5. Mickie Brown says:

    I love the quote–sadly it is true. We just never seem to “learn” those lessons that are shown to us over and over. Mickie :)