They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing (and variations).

Another quote →

Source, in full

Recognized since the 19th century as a adoption, possibly used by Talleyrand, from a 1796 letter to Mallet du Pan by French naval officer Charles Louis Etienne, Chevalier de Panat: Personne n'est corrigé; personne n'a su ni rien oublier ni rien apprendre.—"Nobody has been corrected; no one has known to forget, nor yet to learn anything." Source: Craufurd Tate Ramage, Beautiful Thoughts from French and Italian Authors, E. Howell (1866)

More quotes by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

All Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.