Quotes About Repeating History

#1. We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#2. Powerful Leaders are intentional about not repeating history by always being open to the unprecedented; what's in your future?

Michael Walker

#3. Disregard for the past will never do us any good. Without it we cannot know truly who we are.

Syd Moore

#4. Is it only in the army in the Philippines that Americans sometimes commit deeds that cause all other Americans to regret?
[Theodore Roosevelt 1901 relating reports of water torture in the Philippines to lynching in the south]

Theodore Roosevelt

#5. There is no prophecy in our day but history. But history is a trustworthy prophet. History is always repeating itself, because conditions are always repeating themselves. Out of duplicated conditions history always gets a duplicate product.

Mark Twain

#6. It's important to interrogate history, it's important to document history, because as a society we need constant reminders of the things that we've done in the past in the hope we can stop repeating these horrible lessons.

Matana Roberts

#7. Will this generation be able to turn things around and learn a valuable lesson from all of this? I hope so, but I have my doubts. The damage has been done. And as a lifelong student of history, it's quite evident that human beings don't learn from the mistakes of past generations.

Aaron B. Powell

#8. For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.

Helen Rowland

#9. Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.

Lily Tomlin

#10. I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937 - on my one stock investment - because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this is a fool's procedure ... buying stock in other people's businesses.

Studs Terkel

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

Will Durant

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

Clarence H. Burns

#13. The beautiful thing about history is that we keep repeating it. So if you know the past, you know the future.

L.G. Rivera

#14. As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he'll look for his lessons.

Harper Lee

#15. Events had been set in motion whose echo would be heard a thousand and more generations from now.

J. Valor

#16. Totalitarian solutions may well survive the fall of totalitarian regimes in the form of strong temptations which will come up whenever it seems impossible to alleviate political, social, or economic misery in a manner worthy of man.

Hannah Arendt

#17. 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

#18. ... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!

E.A. Bucchianeri

#19. ...but the power of spilled blood overwhelmed the good intentions of those who wanted to end the violence.

Jeffrey Goldberg

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

Mike Colter

#21. Learning from history helps us avoid repeating its mistakes.

T.A. Uner

#22. War without end.

Well, what was history without that?

And how would having the stars change anything?

James S.A. Corey

#23. History repeating itself is history's oldest story.

Steve Wick

#24. You would think bearing witness to something like this would make a difference, and yet this isn't so. In the newspapers I have read about history repeating itself in Cambodia. Rwanda. Sudan.

Jodi Picoult

#25. History is a set of repeating circles, like the tide. The wind does blow through the ruins of tomorrow. But it is more a question of two steps forward, one step back. Humans and dragons make the same mistakes, again and again, but things do get better over time

Cressida Cowell

#26. So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

Will Durant

#27. If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

Jodi Picoult

#28. In all of history, we have found just one cure for error - a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

David Brin

#29. The minds of youth are perpetually led to the history of Greece and Rime or to Great Britain; Boys are constantly repeating the declamations of Demosthenes and Cicero, or debates upon some political question in the British Parliament.

Noah Webster

#30. We may want to believe that previous world wars and economic depressions have awakened people from their deep sleep, but they didn't and that's why history keeps repeating itself.

Daniel Marques

#31. 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

#32. A nation which fails to adequately remember salient points of
its own history, is like a person with Alzheimer's. And that can be a
social disease of a most destructive nature.

S.M. Sigerson

#33. If there were ever such a thing as a unique opinion, history would probably be less inclined to repeat itself.

Gavin Mills

#34. The problem with revolutions is that they always end right where they begin.

Matthew Catania

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

J. Cole

#36. That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.

C.S. Lewis

#37. Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down - or up, I suppose - replacing other people in the process.

Alexander McCall Smith

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

Dan Abnett

#39. 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

#40. Everything is repeated, in a circle. History is a master because it teaches us that it doesn't exist. It's the permutations that matter.

Umberto Eco

#41. Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.

Criss Jami

#42. Why would a young man like you be interested in history?"
"So I can avoid repeating it."
"Then stay away from men who talk about the fatherland," he said. "That's my advice.

Ben Aaronovitch

#43. History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.

Will Durant

#44. I am more and more impressed with the possibilities of history's repeating itself on many different counts. You don't get very far in Wall Street with the simple, convenient conclusion that a given level of prices is not too high.

Benjamin Graham

#45. Ignorance and its denial will, sad to say, lead us down the same road as it did in all past history.

Jordan Maxwell

#46. It's not history repeating itself in Gaza, it's horror repeating itself

Dean Cavanagh

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

Wynne McLaughlin

#48. History is the most patient of teachers. If Man doesn't get the lesson, it keeps repeating itself until he finally gets it.

Christian Adam Ribeiraud

#49. It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

Mark Twain

#50. History, with all her volumes vast, hath but one page

George Gordon Byron

#51. Time and time over it is the ones who try a little too hard to be innovative rebels - and for the sheer glory of being considered innovative rebels - who then turn out not quite as innovative or as rebellious as they would like to think they are.

Criss Jami

#52. The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

T. S. Eliot

#53. That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

John Buchan

#54. You are not responsible for the past, but insofar as you do nothing, you are complicit in the present created by it.

Jonathan R. Miller

#55. The anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle

Saul Williams

#56. History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won.

William H. Hastie

#57. I spend every day showing people the power of history. But history only has the power you give it.

Brad Meltzer

#58. Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of the being in each one, always now I hear it. Always now slowly I
understand it.

Gertrude Stein

#59. History repeating itself, he thought. Lessons learned long ago so often needed to be learned all over again in the present. It might true here, and he might be the student who was being taught.

Terry Brooks

#60. It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

Henry Kissinger

#61. Isn't it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.

Willa Cather

#62. History always has a way of repeating itself and like in Nazi Germany 1930's ... those who have been given the divine privilege to protect humanity can never afford to turn blind to the evil in our world that destroys its children (Young or old).

Timothy Pina

#63. History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

James A. Garfield

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

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#65. In the 'Disruptive Broadcasting' space, TV on IP networks is now just another application in a broadband world. We have already seen the transformation of the computing and communications industry with respect to traditional telecom. Now, history is repeating itself with traditional broadcasting.

Jeff Pulver