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

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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

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Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

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Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.