“When you learn from experience and history, and try to walk down a different road, the present always reminds you that you need to walk down the road that experience and history did. This is why no one learns from experience and history.”

“We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.”

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”

“What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”

“Experience teaches is such a lovely saying. However, when people try not to make the mistakes of what history and experience has taught, they are criticized for it. They are told that because they have not experienced it, they cannot appreciate it, and thus never know it. However, at the same time, people want you to learn from past mistakes and past experiences, in order to make a better choice for yourself. So let me ask you, which is the hypocrite? Is it history or is it today?”

“...but most roads I have learned from past experience lead somewhere eventually.”