99 History Repeats Itself Quotes

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Famous History Repeats Itself Quotes

History repeats itself and that's just how it goes. - J. Cole

History repeats itself and that's just how it goes. — J. Cole

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history. — Clarence Darrow

History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot - Mark Twain

History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot — Mark Twain

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done. — Sydney J. Harris

History never repeats itself. Man always does. — Voltaire

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. - Karl Marx

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. — Karl Marx

History repeats, first as tragedy and then as farce. — Robert W. Malone

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history. — Jean Baudrillard

Those who do not learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them. - George Santayana

Those who do not learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them. — George Santayana

We learn from history that we do not learn from history — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade. — James W. Loewen

Silence ensures that history repeats itself. — Erin Gruwell

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

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility. — Errol Morris

Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are condemned to reinvent it. — George Santayana

Short History Repeats Itself Quotes

  • Man is a parrot in the House of History; he listens and then he repeats the same crap over and over! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
  • History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same. — Walter Rauschenbusch
  • We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it. — John Buchan
  • History shows you don't know what the future brings. — Rick Wagoner
  • History shows you don't know what the future brings. — G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.
  • There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good. — Stephen Colbert
  • Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse! — Archimedes

History Repeats Itself Image Quotes

History repeats itself quote It's not the future that you're afraid of. It's repeating the past that makes you anxious.
It's not the future that you're afraid of. It's repeating the past that makes you anxious.

History Always Repeats Itself Quotes

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience! — George Bernard Shaw

History does not always repeat itself. — John W. Campbell

History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up. — Will Durant

History repeats itself quote A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.
A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth always repeats itself. — Ameen Rihani

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

Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions. — Jeremy Grantham

History Repeats Itself Because Quotes

History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time. — Erik Qualman

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness. — Will Durant

History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time. — Blackie Sherrod

History repeats itself quote We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself. — Mae West

Repeating History Quotes

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

To the world: what is the point of saying «never again» for 80 years, if the world stays silent when a bomb drops on the same site of Babyn Yar? At least 5 killed. History repeating… — Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Men make their own history - Karl Marx

Men make their own history — Karl Marx

History repeats itself quote Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That's why we call it present.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That's why we call it present.

I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

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

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

History repeats itself quote Yesterday is a history; Tomorrow a mystery; Today is a gift; That's why we call it the present
Yesterday is a history; Tomorrow a mystery; Today is a gift; That's why we call it the present

At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister. Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history. — Harold Wilson

History repeats itself. — George Eliot

The saying, "Those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it" doesn't just apply to politicians and world leaders, it applies to all of us on a daily basis. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. — Mark Twain

Making The Same Mistakes Quotes

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous. — Jane Heard

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live! — Alfred Adler

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. - Tallulah Bankhead

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. — Tallulah Bankhead

History repeats itself quote When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn someth
When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.

I guess if you keep making the same mistake long enough, it becomes your style. — John Prine

Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for. — Amos Tversky

Many bodybuilders sell themselves short. Erroneously attributing their lack of satisfactory progress to a poverty of the requisite genetic traits, instead of to their irrational training and dietary practices, they give up training. Don't make the same mistake — Mike Mentzer

History repeats itself quote Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Every generation thinks they are stronger than the generation before it. They think, "It can't happen to me." In the past people have died making that same mistake. — Lemmy Kilmister

The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them. — John Gierach

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. — George Bernard Shaw

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice. — Theodore Roosevelt

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More History Repeats Itself Quotes

History repeats itself quote Lessons is life will be repeated until they are learned.
Lessons is life will be repeated until they are learned.

A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too comfortably situated as a rule to desire innovation that might require sacrifice on their part. And God's fire only falls on sacrifice. An empty altar receives no fire! — Frank Bartleman

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 marvellous work. — Swami Vivekananda

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

Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. — Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up. — Ronald Wright

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. — Philip Guedalla

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

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

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

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

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another. — Max Beerbohm

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

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

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

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. — Mark Twain

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

History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other. — Arthur Balfour

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. — Gertrude Stein

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

Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that — Julian Barnes

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up. — Unknown

History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories. — Mike Colter

Art, when destroyed can never be replaced, yet history repeats itself. — Clarence H. Burns

History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true. — G. M. Trevelyan

"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

History never repeats itself ,as most people fear. People usually repeat history. — Divine Chikobvu

Nature recycles itself. History repeats itself. Religion has faith in itself. Technology creates itself. Humanity loves itself. — Mark Putzke

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do. — Eric Alterman

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