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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

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

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14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 7th 2011

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

  1. jams o donnell says:
    August 7, 2011 at 9:57 pm

    Well put Cherie

  2. Claude says:
    August 7, 2011 at 10:35 pm

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

  3. Sean Jeating says:
    August 7, 2011 at 11:15 pm

    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, …

  4. Ginnie says:
    August 8, 2011 at 6:56 am

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

  5. jameshigham says:
    August 8, 2011 at 11:07 am

    Precisely the point of certain posts coming up.

  6. London Caller says:
    August 8, 2011 at 11:35 pm

    Lovely bokeh!

  7. Mickie Brown says:
    August 9, 2011 at 4:01 am

    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 :)