What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any lessons they might have drawn from it. Variant: What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelIt is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel