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
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. — Karl Marx
History repeats, first as tragedy and then as farce. — Robert W. Malone
Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade. — James W. Loewen
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility. — Errol Morris
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
Short Not Repeating History 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
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it. — John Buchan
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
it's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones. — Warren Buffett
History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. — Charles Angoff
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
We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Not Repeating History Image Quotes
It's not the future that you're afraid of. It's repeating the past that makes you anxious.
Not Repeating History Quotes
The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. — Mark Twain
You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory! — Immortal Technique
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
A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.
Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures? — Henry Miller
Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and have repeatedly led to disaster. Most of these ideas are not new. They are just being recycled with re-treaded rhetoric. — Thomas Sowell
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
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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
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
Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not repeatable, ever - not with identical twins, not even with conjoined twins. — Gerald Edelman
You do not preach and encourage hatred for the Negro and hope to restrict it to that field. It is an old, old story. It is one repeated over and over again in history. When the wolves of hate are loosed on one people, then no one is safe. — Ralph McGill
History Not Repeating Itself Quotes
History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another. — Max Beerbohm
In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever. — Rex Reed
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
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That's why we call it present.
History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other. — Arthur Balfour
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
Yesterday is a history; Tomorrow a mystery; Today is a gift; That's why we call it the present
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
History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history. — Kahlil Gibran
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
History Quotes
The truth is the greatest enemy of the State. — Unknown Author
History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity. — Haile Selassie
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. — Haile Selassie
When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. — Marcus Garvey
No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions. — Subhas Chandra Bose
Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me. — Fidel Castro
Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny. — T. D. Jakes
Donald Trump is obviously the most pro-gay candidate in American electoral history. — Milo Yiannopoulos
Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat, then that marks the end of a nation. — Ibn Khaldun
History Will Repeat Quotes
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
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
Must the mistakes of history be endlessly repeated? Granting PNTR to China will strengthen the hand of hard-liners, by telling the regime that America will never do anything meaningful to counter its aggression. — Don Feder
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
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
Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself. — Mae West
History Repeats Itself Quotes
History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same. — Walter Rauschenbusch
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
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up. — Ronald Wright
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. — Philip Guedalla
History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time. — Erik Qualman
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
Repetition Quotes
If you have discovered a truth, tell it first to a parrot! Every new truth needs an insistent repetition! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Don’t let your history interfere with your destiny.
Repetition is not repetition, ... The same action makes you feel something completely different by the end — Pina Bausch
The saying "He who teaches others, teaches himself" is very true, not only because constant repetition impresses a fact indelibly on the mind, but because the process of teaching itself gives deeper insight into the subject taught. — John Amos Comenius
Don't be afraid to scrape the paint off and do it again. This is the way you learn, trial and error, over and over, repetition. It pays you great dividends, great, great dividends. — Bob Ross
Those who tell the stories rule society.
Intellectual is a parrot; wise man is a crow. One is repetitive; other is creative! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact. — Daniel Kahneman
In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience. — Bill Laswell
The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy. — Dawn Powell
Understand: you are one of a kind. Your character traits are a kind of chemical mix that will never be repeated in history. There are ideas unique to you, a specific rhythm and perspective that are your strengths, not your weaknesses. You must not be afraid of your uniqueness and you must care less and less what people think of you. — Robert Greene
Experience is the best teacher. But in our day and time, what we need is wisdom, because wisdom overcomes experience, because experience is wisdom, but there's a level of wisdom that overcomes the experience, and that's the experience that's already lived by others. I'm not trying to repeat the histories. I already learned from what they did. — RZA
The repeated claim before the 'seizure of power' - that the NSDAP, as a national social-revolutionary movement, and not simply another political party... would create new bonds of unity through its elimination and transcending of the party system, was highly attractive and conveyed much of Nazism's dynamic appeal. — Ian Kershaw
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
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
I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer's pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history. — Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
I'm not trying to say that we're facing or looking at a likely repeat of history. It would be great if we were. — Rush Limbaugh
All the eight years of [Barack] Obama when [George W.] Bush was asked repeatedly, "I don't do that. I had my time. It's his time now." The protocols and the history, the traditions say that past presidents don't comment. That didn't work for Bill Clinton. He couldn't help himself. Obama is not commenting, but Obama is actively engaged in the sabotage of the [Donald] Trump administration, with all of these community organizing uprisings. — Rush Limbaugh
I do not believe that it can be too often repeated that the freedoms of speech, press, petition and assembly guaranteed by the First Amendment must be accorded to the ideas we hate or sooner or later they will be denied to the ideas we cherish. The first banning of an association because it advocates hated ideas - whether that association be called a political party or not - marks a fateful moment in the history of a free country. — Hugo Black
In South Korea, there's a lot of folks who are already saying this deal doesn't go far enough. And I had one source say that President Park will, quote, "get lots of love from D.C. for this" but that the money itself for the fund - $8 million - isn't that much and that the deal itself doesn't ensure that future generations will learn from history so not to repeat it. — Elise Hu
History may not repeat, but it often rhymes. — Mark Twain
In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because it is symmetrical and fair. Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history. — Eugene Jarecki
The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance. — Glenn Beck
Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat. ... A museum should be established to remind China of the follies and disasters that had fallen from 1966 to 1976. We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself. — Ba Jin
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. — Sue Monk Kidd
The military ain't there for the people's protection,
They're just there to protect an investment.
That's why people get arrested, electrocuted, molested,
Connected streets are infested with those tired of protesting.
Traumatized children grown in guerrilla garrisons,
9/11 generations pale in comparison.
And you will learn a lesson repeated through history:
That no matter what you think, occupation is not victory. — Immortal Technique
And this is why studying the history of psi is important. People have been reporting these phenomena for millennia and studying them for centuries. Human experiences that continue to be repeated throughout history and across cultures, are not due to ignorance or lack of critical thinking, and demand a serious explanation. — Dean Radin
I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer's pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment. — Alan Cohen
If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors. — Mahatma Gandhi
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