A Quote by Peter Ustinov

If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.

Peter Ustinov

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Peter Ustinov
English - Actor
April 16, 1921 - March 28, 2004

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.

Michael Lewis

If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood.

Edwin Gaustad

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

Ronald Reagan

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.

Amin Maalouf

History teaches us that the capacity of things to get worse is limitless. Roman history suggests that the short, happy life of the American republic may be coming to its end... the US will probably maintain a facade of constitutional government and drift along until financial bankruptcy overtakes it.

Chalmers Johnson

History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.

Ludwig Borne

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

Robert A. Heinlein

There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.

Malcolm X

Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.

Hyman Rickover

Even as we do all that's necessary to ensure Israel's security, even as we are clear-eyed about the difficult challenges before us, and even as we pledge to stand by Israel through whatever tough days lie ahead, I hope we do not give up on that vision of peace. For if history teaches us anything, if the story of Israel teaches us anything, it is that with courage and resolve, progress is possible. Peace is possible.

Barack Obama

It is history that teaches us to hope.

Robert E. Lee

History teaches us hope.

Robert E. Lee

Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about.