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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

If past generations hide their mistakes from their successors, they condemn the young to commit the same mistakes as their elders.

Goethe (1849 – 1932)

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14 Comments CherryPie on Mar 10th 2013

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

  1. peppylady (Dora) says:
    March 10, 2013 at 10:00 pm

    I’ve never seen a grave marker like that before.

    Coffee is on.

  2. Don QuiScottie says:
    March 10, 2013 at 10:37 pm

    The young tend to make the same mistakes as their elders regardless of what they get told by their elders.

  3. Claude says:
    March 11, 2013 at 4:43 am

    No one believes that fire burns until one puts one’s finger in it. We learn through our own mistakes, never through other people’s mistakes.

    • CherryPie says:
      March 11, 2013 at 6:17 pm

      When I read the quote I think more of history and and groups of people, nations for example making mistakes. Which we should be able to learn from, but unfortunately we do not.

  4. Ginnie says:
    March 11, 2013 at 7:18 am

    I was gonna say the same thing as Don, that even when the kids know, they still make the same mistakes. Why are we all so dang stubborn!!!!

  5. missing moments says:
    March 11, 2013 at 4:21 pm

    Love Goethe sayings … and isn’t this another truism!

  6. Ayush says:
    March 12, 2013 at 3:31 am

    a solid looking cross, how symbolic that it should be claimed by the vegetation

  7. james higham says:
    March 12, 2013 at 8:31 am

    Somerset Maugham I think had something similar to say. It’s interesting how it works.