Quotes About History Repeats Itself

#1. 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

#2. If history repeats itself, I am so getting a dinosaur!

Anonymous

#3. Silence ensures that history repeats itself.

Erin Gruwell

#4. If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

#5. History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
[1880]

Max Beerbohm

#6. History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

Mike Colter

#7. I put the truth out there, I put the historical facts into Hip Hop to show us how much history repeats itself and that if we truly want to evolve as a human race, we need to stop sticking each other in ridiculous categories.

Immortal Technique

#8. All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.

John Baldacci

#9. History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

Will Durant

#10. Art, when destroyed can never be replaced, yet history repeats itself.

Clarence H. Burns

#11. History repeats itself when it does not feel heard.

Christine Edwards

#12. History repeats itself. As do the methods used by those specializing in the elimination of leaders who unite people into a strong force for dignity, justice and self-determination.

S.M. Sigerson

#13. History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Karl Marx

#14. History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

Clarence Darrow

#15. History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

Joseph Conrad

#16. Time does stop sometimes, you see everyone passing by, following their destiny and the destination it is leading, and you conclude its better where you are then moving again ... often history repeats itself before it changes ...

Prashant

#17. Marx wrote that 'History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.' This was witty but far from true. History is never repeated, but it borrows, steals, echoes and commandeers the past to create a hybrid, something unique out of the ingredients of past and present.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

#18. History repeats itself and that's just how it goes,

J. Cole

#19. History repeats itself but without a parity bit

Nauman Khan

#20. "History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

G. M. Trevelyan

#21. History repeats itself is another way of saying the past harmonizes.

Stephen King

#22. All of us know history repeats itself, but mighty few of us recognize the repetition until too late.

Kenneth Roberts

#23. History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.

Erik Qualman

#24. I've said it before, history repeats itself for those who don't learn from the past. Can we please learn from all this? Please? Or is everyone waiting for yet another savior to come along and charm them Hollywood style if freedom is still around for America's next election?

L.M. Fields

#25. History repeats itself, you sang. I wonder if that's true. If there's a hurt
that's buried in us, maybe it keeps fi nding its way through.

Ava Dellaira

#26. Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

Ronald Wright

#27. History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

Sydney J. Harris

#28. When you don't change, history repeats itself. Then you have to decide if changing is for the best, or you keep seeing repeats because you're doing something right.

Rebecca McKinsey

#29. History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

Clarence Darrow

#30. For every written history, there is a silenced part of it, that is left to remain untold and undiscovered until history repeats itself.

Joon Mier Da Mienta

#31. Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.

Jeremy Grantham

#32. History sometimes reproduces, at a distance of many years, the same combinations of circumstances that generate great achievements. But nothing ever repeats itself in exactly the same way.

Valerio Massimo Manfredi

#33. History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

Mark Twain

#34. That history almost always repeats itself. And it is almost always written by men.

Ally Carter

#35. History never repeats itself - but historical situations recur." As

Arthur C. Clarke

#36. History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

Tariq Ali

#37. If history really forever repeats itself: then, it has always been then.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#38. For us to change history, we first need to change the future.

Anthony Liccione

#39. History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

George Eliot

#40. History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions.

John Dean

#41. History always repeats itself

Gerald J. Kubicki

#42. [N]ot only is the most marvellous event in this book collaborated by plain facts of the present day, but that these marvels (like all marvels) are mere repetitions of the ages.

Herman Melville

#43. Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.

Jacques Ellul

#44. The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#45. The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which today presents features as novel and charms as fresh as those with which it delighted, in the morning of history, the dwellers on the banks of the Ganges and Indus.

Willard Fiske

#46. History never repeats itself, historians do.

Lee Benson

#47. History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

Jean Baudrillard

#48. History never repeats itself. Man always does.

Voltaire

#49. History never repeats itself," said Voltaire; "man always does." Thucydides,

Barbara W. Tuchman

#50. The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#51. History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned.

Demetri Martin

#52. While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

Eric Alterman

#53. Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

Karl Marx