Top 100 History Repeat Quotes
#1. So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.
Sarah Dessen
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
[1880]
Max Beerbohm
#5. 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.
#6. Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. --George Santyana
Richie Swanson
#7. Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.
W. H. Auden
#8. You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.
Pittacus Lore
#9. They say people who
don't learn from history are destined to repeat it.
Susan Mallery
#10. We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.
Todd Gitlin
#11. Some say, 'Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.' I say, 'Those who ignore history are in for a big surprise.'
Stephen Colbert
#12. Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. - Bene Gesserit Coda
Frank Herbert
#13. Those who don't know history may be bound to repeat it. But even people who know it may follow the same fate if they interpret it exclusively in their own favor.
Yanko Tsvetkov
#14. Never stop reading. History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme.
Seth Klarman
#15. Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
Edmund Burke
#16. 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
#17. It is said that those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it. That's not quite correct. We all forget history. The key is whether we have a way to go back to rediscover what we forget. More directly, the key is whether an objective past can keep us honest.
Lawrence Lessig
#18. History may not repeat itself," in Mark Twain's wise formulation, "but it rhymes.
Adam Smith
#19. If you examine your history, you cannot help but repeat it! Law of Attraction says it is so: 'Whatever I am looking at, I am including in my vibration.'
Esther Hicks
#20. If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.
Terry Venables
#21. Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.
John Thorn
#22. Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?
Kiera Cass
#23. History does not repeat itself. It is men who never learned from the past who repeat history.
Rei Lemuel Crizaldo
#25. If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to the inheritance left by our ancestors. If we may make new discoveries and inventions in the phenomenal world, must we declare our bankruptcy in the spiritual domain? Is
Paramahansa Yogananda
#26. 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
#27. It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
Eugene Jarecki
#28. You see gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history rather than simply repeat it. Humans can ... how do you moderns say it ... think outside the cup.
Rick Riordan
#29. If you don't learn about each other, you do not understand each other, and you don't hide warts and all, both sides, then you're forever going to repeat history.
Warren Mundine
#30. If there were ever such a thing as a unique opinion, history would probably be less inclined to repeat itself.
Gavin Mills
#31. It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
Cormac McCarthy
#32. Remember the lessons of history - if we don't learn from history, we're bound to repeat it.
Ted Cruz
#34. If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer.
Mark Batterson
#35. The day we forget the horror, Sam, we will repeat it. Never forget your past. It will make you less human, less than human.
Katherine Reay
#36. History,' it has been said, 'does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.
Max Beerbohm
#37. From whom but the Devil did this advice come under which you are acting? Those who are urging you to repeat your former wrongdoings against an innocent person are seeking in this not your honour but their own convenience. They are clearly the enemies of your crown and the disturbers of your realm.
Alison Weir
#38. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it in summer school
Josh Stern
#39. Let me repeat what history teaches. History teaches.
Gertrude Stein
#40. On the board, Mr. Beery had written "Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it." I wasn't sure if this was meant to be inspirational, thematic, or a joke about making sure to study.
Gabrielle Zevin
#41. Camillo always say we are on earth to learn. I think I want to teach. I want to teach history so that the world does not have to repeat our mistakes.
Amy Harmon
#42. History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.
George Eliot
#43. I'm the type that thinks if you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it.
Mark Cuban
#44. 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
#45. History tended to repeat itself.
Why should her past be any different?
Kayla Krantz
#46. In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever.
Rex Reed
#47. History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.
Khalil Gibran
#48. History is an ongoing novel, but if we don't learn from what we read and see we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of history.
Tony Brooks
#49. History has to repeat itself," said Woody Allen, "because nobody was listening the first time around.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#50. Why did I need to learn history anyway when it was just going to repeat itself?
J.L. Weil
#51. It is strange how interiors reflect their dark turbulent past, how in their stillness bygone history tries to be reenacted, how the same situations repeat themselves with infinite variations, turned upside down and inside out by fruitless dialectic of wallpapers and hangings.
Bruno Schulz
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.
James W. Loewen
#55. Note: If you met your wife while she was married to another man, history is bound to repeat itself.
Jim Gaffigan
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. Maybe history wouldn't have to repeat itself if we listened once in awhile.
Wynne McLaughlin
#63. Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally.
Isabel Allende
#64. Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.
Peter Lamborn Wilson
#65. Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Edmund Burke
#66. Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.
Alan Cohen
#67. History may not repeat itself but, as Mark Twain said, it does rhyme.
Paul Kriwaczek
#68. Winston Churchill said: 'Those who fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.
T.B. Markinson
#69. History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music.
Stephen King
#70. 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
#71. Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.
Eskinder Nega
#72. 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
#74. 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
#75. Gamora: History repeating itself?
Warlock: History doesn't repeat itself, Gamora, but sometimes it rhymes.
Dan Abnett
#76. It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude Stein
#77. Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.
Mae West
#78. Mitch
"
"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
#79. 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
#80. Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.
Jesse Ventura
#81. Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.
Lemony Snicket
#82. 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
#83. History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.
Mark Twain
#84. 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
#85. 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
#87. Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
Will Durant
#88. 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
#89. I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.
Antony Beevor
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
#93. 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
#95. I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.
Clint Eastwood
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. History was ignorant and had a mean streak, so it tended to repeat.
Raymond L. Atkins
#99. We read history in order not to have to repeat it.
Inge Scholl
#100. He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.
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