I believe that said different it applies to EVERYTHING!
If you pop a dog on the nose with a news paper when he wets the floor HE LEARNS FAST!! CUZ!

But dogs are smarter than the Bush Family!
Logic101

 I agree that in order to progress in life we must learn from our mistakes of the past. Unfortunately i think its not so much a case of knowing were we went wrong but of choosing not to ignore the lesson. For some reason we seem hell bent to repeat our mistakes over and over again although history has shown us that it simply doesn't work. I think its a flaw in our psyche that we refuse to accept inevitability. Perhaps its a necessary trait that is part of what makes us human.

 I agree. History is rife with examples of people repeating the mistakes of the past. Many of those mistakes are being repeated in the world today.

This "law" is true whether it be on an international level, or a personal one.

This is one of the things which annoys me when I hear someone say "We must let the kids learn from their own mistakes". Bull. If you love your children, you will hope to teach them to avoid that which is harmful to them by trying to let them learn from YOUR mistakes. Learning by ones own mistake can often be too late, and you can be too dead to learn anything from it.

Insanity is repeating the same mistakes of the past while expecting a different outcome.

 I agree with you, it's in human nature to make those mistakes (which is why they were made in the first place). So we need to look into the disasters of the past and learn or we'll have no choice but to repeat the past...

But sometimes...human nature does overrule what we've learned and no amount of "learning" will halt the repetition of history.

 Yes definitely i totally agree with this statement. Unfortunately we have not learned enough. Because some stupid people (eg politicians) think that they don't need to study history cause nothing is ever gonna happen again.

 In one of Paul's letters to the Corinthians, he tells us that the stories of the Old Testament were written down so that we, who come along later, can learn and not do the same things. But I wonder how much do we learn, or do we think "that can't happen to me!"

 I've seen people make the same mistake twice, so yes
I agree. Crimanals for instance, a majority of them end up in jail a second time. This problem
is all to prevalent. They obviously never learned
from their mistakes.

 I agree. I'm completely for that "You can't live in today if you don't know your past" thing. I'm happy that I want to know more about my history, so I'm not a failure to repeat something.

 Of course.. That is the rule of the rules of the school before you proceed with the other subjects ^^ nyahahaha.. I know you can do it!

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 I agree...i believe the reason we make mistakes is to learn from them. Nothing is invented on the first try. It take expierementing and trial and error to get things right.

 You can learn from mistakes

 This is true because its just like the saying you learn from your mistakes heres and example if you were to get in trouble with a spouse or parent and you did not learn your lesson the first time then you are most likely to do it again

 Everybody should learn from mistakes they made in the past. To forget history is to Betray.

 I agree. If we didn't learn from the past we would still be fighting with bare hands and over frivoluous objectives

 I am for it

 I agree totally with the statement. I also think that it is, most times, arrogance that is the reason we repeat things which happened before us. Man can look back at past events and say I'm going to do this, but I'm not going to make the same mistakes as (insert name) when I do it.