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HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF QUOTES
- “History repeats itself.” – George Eliot
- “History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.”- Karl Marx
- “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”- George Santayana
- “Silence ensures that history repeats itself.”- Erin Gruwell
- “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” – Winston Churchill
- “History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.”- Sydney J. Harris
- “If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”- George Bernard Shaw
- “History repeats itself endlessly for those who are unwilling to learn from the past.” – Leon Brown
- “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” – Edmund Burke
- “History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.” – Quavo
- “Men make their own history.”- Karl Marx
- “History seems to be repeating itself.” – James Lago
- “History repeats itself and that’s just how it goes.”- J. Cole
- “It’s a case of history repeating itself.” – Stewart Newnham
- “History repeats itself, and it does not care what it repeats.”
- “The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”- Mark Twain
- “Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.”- Ronald Wright
- “History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.”- Karl Marx
- “History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.”- Philip Guedalla
- “You have to turn the page. Don’t let history repeat itself.” – Carl Pavano
- “While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.” – Eric Alterman
- “History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.”- Erik Qualman
- “We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history.” – Gary Chapman
- “Sometimes history repeats itself. And sometimes it doesn’t.” – Adam Curtis
- “History repeats itself until we learn the lessons that we need to change our path.”
- “History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.” – Max Beerbohm
- “History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.”- Clarence Darrow
- “Don’t let history repeat itself, you have the power to stop the patterns.” – Ivana Chubbuck
- “Art, when destroyed can never be replaced, yet history repeats itself.” – Clarence H. Burns
- “If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.”- Terry Venables
- “History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.”- Mike Colter
- “We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.” – George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- “The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself.” – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- “Maybe history wouldn’t have to repeat itself if we listened once in awhile.” – Wynne McLaughlin
- “… the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!” – E.A. Bucchianeri
- “Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.”- James W. Loewen
- “History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.”- Walter Rauschenbusch
- “History repeats itself…in a different way…but with same meaning hidden in each situation…” – Robbin/Tom
- “History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.” – Will Durant
- “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.”- Errol Morris
- “History repeats itself, liars will be liars, cheaters will be cheaters, and the person who has always been there for you, always will be.”
- “The problem with the idea that history repeats itself is that when it isn’t making us wiser it’s making us complacent.” – Lisa Halliday
- “It was interesting looking back at the ’80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time – the cliché of history repeating itself.” – Brian K. Vaughan
- “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, 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
- “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
- “There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself.” – Chuck Palahniuk
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain’t never going to see nothing brand new; you’re only going to see when records are broken. And we’re here to just set records and set trends and follow the footsteps that have been shown to us.” – Quavo
- “I’m a strong believer that you can build great companies in time of both greed and fear. But you have to be paying attention and operating under the right assumptions. You don’t have to believe history repeats itself, but you should accept that history rhymes.” – Brad Feld
- “I think history repeats itself. There’s a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it’s gender equality, the Time’s Up movement, or diversity casting, it’s always going to be a back-and-forth battle.” – Michael B. Jordan
- “History repeats itself again, I guess. The rate of innovation is so high in our industry that if you don’t innovate at that speed you can be replaced pretty quickly. The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about, is now five years old.” – Thorsten Heins
- “History repeats itself only in that, from afar, we all seem to lead exactly the same life. We are all born; we all spend time here on earth; we all die. But up close, we have each walked down our own separate paths. We have stood at our own lonely crossroads. We have touched the lives of others at crucial points, for better or for worse. In the end, each of us has lived a unique life story, astounding and complicated, a story that could never be repeated.”- Edward Bloor
- “The saying goes that history repeats itself; personal histories do the same. We can gather the lessons of others’ lives through observation, conversation, and by seeking advice. We can use the automatic system to find out who the happy people are, and the reflective system to evaluate how they got to be that way. Pursuing happiness need not be a lonely endeavor. In fact, throwing in our lot with others may be a very good way of coping with the disappointments of choice.” – Sheena Iyengar