Quote by Aldous Huxley
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. – Aldous Huxley

Other quotes by Aldous Huxley

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. – Aldous Huxley

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Conformity
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It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all ones life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than try to be a little kinder. – Aldous Huxley

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Life
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History
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Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. – Thomas Friedman

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History

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all. – Alan Shepard

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History

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. – Will Durant

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History

A boy who hears a lesson in history ended by the beauty of peace, and how Napoleon brought ruin upon the world and that he should be forever cursed, will not long have much confidence in his teacher. He wants to hear more about the fighting and less about the peace negotiations. – William Lee Howard, Peace, Dolls and Pugnacity

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History

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I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing. – Pope John Paul II

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Hope

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right. – Henry Bessemer (discovered new method of producing steel)

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Conformity

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. – Jonathan Swift

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Art

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together. – William Jennings Bryan

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Hope