“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.”
“The lesson of history is that we don't learn the lessons of history.”
“History is studied. Lessons are learned from it.”
“The lesson of history is that no one learns.”
“A master can teach many things. But the most important lesson for a ninja is to learn oneself.”
“If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.”