Originally Posted by
Cornish Jack
"Those who fail to learn the lessons of history will be DOOMED to repeat them" ...aphorism?- maybe ... accurate? - most definitely!
This is so often misquoted to support an opinion. The full quote in its context is :
"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana
Nothing to do with learning lessons, all to do with progress.