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
Interesting Repeating History quotations
History repeats itself and that's just how it goes.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Those who do not learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them.
Man is a parrot in the House of History; he listens and then he repeats the same crap over and over!
History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.
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!
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.
Because we are denied knowledge of our history, we are deprived of standing upon each other's shoulders and building upon each other's hard earned accomplishments. Instead we are condemned to repeat what others have done before us and thus we continually reinvent the wheel. The goal of The Dinner Party is to break this cycle.
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.
Men make their own history
History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot
History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
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.
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.
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.
History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.
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.
Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.
Silence ensures that history repeats itself.
History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
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.
History repeats itself.
Every time the diaphragm winks, the camera repeats the question that now travels through cyberspace and invades, as a modern virus, the memories of machines, men and women. The question that history sets forth. The question which forces us to define ourselves and whose answer makes us human: On which side are you?
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!
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.
The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory!
I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.
For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.
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.
