I was about to write a smart-ass comment, something like: “We learn from history that we do not learn from history”, but then I thought the quote is to obvious and somebody should have said something similar in the past. I did some searching an and voila: Hegel in his “Lectures on the Philosophy of History” wrote:
“What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history.”

Bummer… Still, I think, my version sounds better 🙂