Does History Repeat Itself Quotes

#1. Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.

Julian Barnes

#2. Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

Lemony Snicket

#3. Patterns repeat themselves in history

Rick Riordan

#4. I've heard it said before that those who don't learn from the past are bound to repeat it, and I just don't know what I think about that. I figure I don't have too much use for it. The past will just weigh on you if you spend too much time remembering it.

Wiley Cash

#5. We must not let history repeat itself in Iraq. The reality is there is no military solution in Iraq. This is a sectarian war with long standing roots that were flamed when we invaded Iraq in 2003. Any lasting solution must be political and take into account respect for the entire Iraqi population.

Barbara Lee

#6. Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

#7. Be not afraid, for all great power throughout the history of humanity has been with the people. From out of their ranks have come all the greatest geniuses of the world, and history can only repeat itself. Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work.

Swami Vivekananda

#8. The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

Simon Wiesenthal

#9. Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.

Mae West

#10. British Statesman, parliamentary orator and political thinker, Edmund Burke once said, "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it." This is true to say the least.

Robert Paulson

#11. Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.

Will Durant

#12. History does not repeat itself, but it rhyme.

Joseph Anthony

#13. An old adage warns: If you don't know your history, you will be forever condemned to repeat it. Likewise, if you don't know your science fiction, and heed its warnings, you could condemn the Earth to future catastrophe.

Kelly Steed

#14. Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#15. History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.

Mark Twain

#16. History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.

John Buchan

#17. I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.

Clint Eastwood

#18. Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.

Jesse Ventura

#19. A bard must know history so she does not repeat it. She tells the tales but is never part of them. She watches but remains above what she sees. She inspires passions in others and rules her own.

David Gaider

#20. Mitch
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"All right, baby, I'll shut you up."
Then he did, his head slanting and his lips taking mine in a repeat performance of the open-mouthed, knock my socks off, rock my world, best kiss in the history of all time.

Kristen Ashley

#21. I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

Antony Beevor

#22. History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.

John W. Campbell Jr.

#23. Live long enough and nothing is news. 'The News' is
'the new things.' That's fine, until a hundred years go by and you realise there are no new things, only deep structures and cycles that repeat themselves through different period details.

Glen Duncan

#24. History does not repeat itself. It is men who never learned from the past who repeat history.

Rei Lemuel Crizaldo

#25. History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

Rick Perlstein

#26. History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

Khalil Gibran

#27. In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever.

Rex Reed

#28. As we were told about others, so others will be told about us. that is "HISTORY". and the most painfull thing about it is that, it does not repeat itself. it comes onece in life and never again.

Hamzat Haruna Ribah

#29. History,' it has been said, 'does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

Max Beerbohm

#30. Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

#31. It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

Eugene Jarecki

#32. Maybe history wouldn't have to repeat itself if we listened once in awhile.

Wynne McLaughlin

#33. It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

Gertrude Stein

#34. Gamora: History repeating itself?
Warlock: History doesn't repeat itself, Gamora, but sometimes it rhymes.

Dan Abnett

#35. We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten ... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.

Kurt Vonnegut

#36. History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#37. We are condemned to repeat the past whether we remember it or not. It is inevitable; just ask Nietzsche (eternal return) or Hegel (history repeats itself) or James McCourt (history repeats itself like hiccups). Beirutis

Rabih Alameddine

#38. Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.

Eskinder Nega

#39. Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it. You have to expose who you are so that you can determine what you need to become.

Cynthia A. Patterson

#40. History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music.

Stephen King

#41. Winston Churchill said: 'Those who fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.

T.B. Markinson

#42. History may not repeat itself but, as Mark Twain said, it does rhyme.

Paul Kriwaczek

#43. Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.

Alan Cohen

#44. But history does repeat itself; that is the comedy and the crime of history. Men learn nothing. Times change. Scenes change. Names change. But passions are the same.

Carlos Fuentes

#45. Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.

Peter Lamborn Wilson

#46. Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally.

Isabel Allende

#47. Love should always be given, but trust must be earned, and never forget or else be tagged the fool, doomed to repeat history.

L.M. Fields

#48. History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.

Julius Lester

#49. And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.

Michael Berryman

#50. History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Anthony Robbins

#51. It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

Steve Berry

#52. Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.

Alex Haley

#53. Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

J. D. Hayworth

#54. Note: If you met your wife while she was married to another man, history is bound to repeat itself.

Jim Gaffigan

#55. Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

James W. Loewen

#56. I will repeat history over and over. I'm one of those girls where I would just rather beat it into the ground than go through the rest of my life wondering how it would have worked out.

Chelsea Kane

#57. Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Edmund Burke

#58. He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.

Pittacus Lore

#59. History was ignorant and had a mean streak, so it tended to repeat.

Raymond L. Atkins

#60. The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.

Alfred North Whitehead