Top 78 Repeat The Past Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past."
"Can't repeat the past? he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!
F Scott Fitzgerald
#3. You, right this minute, stand at the growing tip of evolution. The next thing you think, the next action you take, will either create a new possibility for you, or it will repeat the past.
Anonymous
#4. As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past.
Andy Stanley
#5. Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. - Bene Gesserit Coda
Frank Herbert
#6. We stand on the backs of our forefathers, and live with what they have left us. That doesn't mean we have to repeat the past but we must listen to it.
Erik Mercer
#7. All that blind, infantile hunger to save and be saved, to repeat the past and make it different, had somehow attached itself, ravenously, to her.
Donna Tartt
#8. Mitt Romney would move the Court even further right, putting landmark decisions like Roe v. Wade at risk. Some say Romney would repeat the past. I disagree - he'd be worse.
Chuck Schumer
#10. Can't repeat the past? We do it every day. We build a life, or try to, of pleasures and duties that will become routine, so that every day will be the same day, or nearly so, "the day of our life," Randall Jarrell called it.
Adam Gopnik
#11. 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
#12. O The irony of man, he thinks he's past generation did not repeat the same way of thinking, either intelligently or foolishly.
A Gentleman
#13. Shutting down is denial. When you deny the past, you will repeat it.
Patricia Cornwell
#14. Sometimes she wondered if she was doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, since she'd trained herself not to look back at it.
Cinda Williams Chima
#15. There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.
Pearl Bailey
#16. 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
#17. Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.
Leila Sales
#18. While forgetting the past might condemn people to repeat it, remembering it too vividly condemned them to never leave.
Louise Penny
#19. History does not repeat itself. It is men who never learned from the past who repeat history.
Rei Lemuel Crizaldo
#20. There is no more time for us left to revive our great country. No more time to repeat our mistakes of the past. Washington needs a complete turnaround, and Donald Trump is the agent of change, and he will be the leader of the change we need.
Rudy Giuliani
#21. Why this book? In today's globalized world, it seems we forget things that happened only a decade ago. Thus, we repeat the mistakes of the past, unnecessarily.
Thomas Jerome Baker
#22. The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may be precisely the essential part of it.. He is obliged to repeat the repressed material as a contemporary experience instead of remembering it as something in the past.
Sigmund Freud
#23. If we get it wrong, if we repeat the mistakes of our past, the consequences could be devastating. But if we get it right, the potential benefits to the future of humanity are astonishing.
Stephen L. Petranek
#24. How foolish we are to keep repeating the negative memories from the past in our minds, while rarely thinking of the good times, nor being thankful for what we have. Be good to yourself and repeat and focus on the positive.
Maddy Malhotra
#25. He planet is just too small for these developing countries to repeat the economic growth in the same way that the rich countries have done it in the past. We don't have enough natural resources, we don't have enough atmosphere. Clearly, something has to change.
Mario J. Molina
#26. I was so sure it would happen. That the past was an abused record with no choice but to repeat itself at the crack and no power on earth could lift the arm that held the needle.
Toni Morrison
#27. Concerning mistakes, follow three simple rules. Firstly, correct a mistake that you made whenever it is possible. Secondly, don't repeat the same mistakes. Thirdly, learn from past mistakes.
Eraldo Banovac
#28. It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
Eugene Jarecki
#29. [To the House of Representatives before casting the only vote against allowing George W. Bush to use 'all necesary and appropriate force' in response to 9/11:] We must be careful not to embark on an open-ended war with neither an exit strategy nor a focused target. We cannot repeat past mistakes.
Barbara Lee
#30. The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.
Lu Xun
#31. 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
#33. All I'd done for the past ten years was talk about it. I was sick of talking...sick of analyzing...sick of reliving it...sick of the screaming in my head that replayed over and over like a song stuck on repeat.
S.A. Healey
#34. All of us benefit from remembering our past. A people which remembers does not repeat past errors; instead, it looks with confidence to the challenges of the present and the future.
Pope Francis
#35. Do not be ready to listen to anyone who is ready to show you your past mistakes instead, be ready to listen to someone who is ready to show you the untold lessons from your past mistakes so that you may be able to skip your future mistakes
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#36. Extraordinary change can happen in your life, but it will take extraordinary people, extraordinary courage and extraordinary faith to believe that this won't be a repeat of your past.
Shannon L. Alder
#37. Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it
Lauren Slater
#38. After a bad day there's always hope in remembering that the day cannot possibly repeat itself, therefore all who still treat you badly because of it are thinking in the past. Tell them that, it will make you feel better.
Unknown Author 649
#39. Let the pain of past not ruin the happiness of present and dreams of future. Move on.
Vikrmn
#40. An origin, I repeat, is not confined to the past: it is a whirlwind, in Benjamin's very fine image, a chasm in the present. And we are drawn into this abyss. That is why the present is, par excellence, the thing that is left unlived.
Anonymous
#41. Some things are better left in the past. And true things are destined to repeat themselves.
Suzanne Young
#42. 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
#43. Those who refuse to acknowledge the past are condemned to repeat it.
Karen White
#44. If we humans can so easily wash the blood of our fellow humans off our hands, then what hope is there for sparing our future generations from a repeat of the genocides and mass killings of the past?
Thomas Buergenthal
#45. Even if we remember the past, odds are good we'll still repeat it.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#46. 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
#47. Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
Sivananda Saraswati
#48. The past might hurt but don't run from it, repeat it, or punish others for it. Learn from it and be glad that you survived it.
Rob Liano
#49. If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.
A.R. Bernard
#50. You know that old phrase 'Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it'? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.
Chuck Palahniuk
#51. You can't undo the past ... but you can certainly not repeat it.
Bruce Willis
#52. There's nothing to say. The past is in the past for a reason. You either choose to learn from it or repeat it. I was never one to read a book twice and I won't do the same with my life."
Siva
Micalea Smeltzer
#53. Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
#54. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
Errol Morris
#55. I shall stay and tell my tale, hope that it may serve some purpose, that eyes shall see it and learn, that the future will not repeat the mistakes of the past. That is my prayer, but what use is prayer to a god that has abandoned all things . . .
John Gwynne
#56. Think there is nothing we can do to change the past, so we have to look at the present to make sure that the past will never repeat itself again.
Heinz Fischer
#57. Sometimes the past is the best memories you lived ever cause it'll never repeat again
Christine Minasian
#58. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
Sara Shepard
#59. The past is the past, but if you're overanalyzing or trying to repeat it, you're gonna get stuck. I just had a wonderful youth, and I loved everything about it, so I really try and hang on to it.
Chris Evans
#60. Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.
Errol Morris
#61. Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes. Resolve to learn something new every day. Because every 24 hours, you have the opportunity to have the best day of your company's life.
Harvey MacKay
#62. Philosophers have warned us: if we forget the past, we are doomed to repeat it.
Ira Levin
#63. What ultimately got me through was my single-minded determination, voiced aloud to myself and recorded in my diary, to discover the causes of my blindness and never to repeat them. Fearlessly pursuing insight was my badge of honor, my route back to self-respect.
Jeanne Safer
#64. Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.
Lemony Snicket
#65. 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
#66. The Original Quote was:- THOSE WHO FORGET PAST MISTAKES ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT THEM... It was never (as other quotes read)- 'those who forget the past are doomed' - why would we forget the past, that quote makes no sense...
Mel Jones
#67. Identify your personal limits and then push past them. Then set new barriers, and repeat the process, again and again and again.
Nicole Haislett
#68. The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.
Henry Hazlitt
#69. Understand the nature and influence of repeating patterns, from childhood experiences or even from past lives. Wthout understanding, patterns tend to repeat, unnecessarily damaging the relationship.
Brian L. Weiss
#70. Regrets of the past can be turned into seeds to grow a more positive future or unlearned, doomed to repeat the same.
Tambre Bryant
#71. Thinking of someone else is what got me damned. It's a mistake I don't want to repeat. (Xypher)
You know sometimes it's by repeating our mistakes that we realize what went wrong the first time. Knowing that, we're able to fix the mistake and move past it. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#72. If you repeat your negative memories in your mind and feel self-pity, then YOU are both the abuser and the victim - not those who wronged you in the past. Your present and future will be happier if you take control of your thoughts.
Maddy Malhotra
#73. I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hurt our national unity is my enemy until the day of judgement.
King Hussein I
#74. Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
#76. 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
#77. Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.
James W. Loewen
#78. Historians study the past not in order to repeat it, but in order to be liberated from it.
Yuval Noah Harari
