Quote of George Bernard Shaw - If history repeats itself, and the...

Biography - George Bernard Shaw:

Irish playwright critic and polemicis.
Born: 1856 - Died: 1950
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom

Quote

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

Translation

(German, French)

Wenn die Geschichte sich wiederholt und immer das Unerwartete geschieht, wie unfähig muss der Mensch sein, durch Erfahrung klug zu werden.”
George Bernard Shaw

Si l'histoire se répète, et l'inattendu se produit toujours, à quel point l'homme est-il incapable d'apprendre de l'expérience.”
George Bernard Shaw

Quotes for: to learn:

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
Nelson Mandela

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Learning to love is why we are here.”
Abbé Pierre

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.”
Katherine Mansfield

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
Leonardo da Vinci

From one, learn all.”
Publius Vergilius Maro - Aeneid

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Quotes about history:

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”
Aristotle

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.”
Victor Hugo

World history is the progress of the consciousness of freedom”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.”
Albert Camus

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.”
Gustave Flaubert

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Quotes for: experience:

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
Soren Kierkegaard

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”
Leonardo da Vinci - Codex Forster

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
John Locke

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
Oscar Wilde

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George Bernard Shaw also said...

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.”
George Bernard Shaw

All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
George Bernard Shaw

truth

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
George Bernard Shaw

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.”
George Bernard Shaw

change

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may be different.”
George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.”
George Bernard Shaw

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