| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 27687 |
| QUOTATION: | History ... is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
But what experience and history teach is this—that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), German philosopher. The Philosophy of History, introduction (1807). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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