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Quotes About Repetition

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
~ George Bernard Shaw
History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.
~ Mark Twain
History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.
~ Jean Baudrillard
History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
~ Clarence Darrow
Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.
~ James W. Loewen
History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions.
~ John Dean
Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.
~ James Mattis
History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned.
~ Demetri Martin
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
Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
~ Will Durant
If you examine your history, you cannot help but repeat it! Law of Attraction says it is so: 'Whatever I am looking at, I am including in my vibration.'
~ Esther Hicks
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 repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
~ Philip Guedalla
What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other
~ Orson Welles, Mr. Arkadin
The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again
~ George Santayana
History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.
~ Mike Colter
The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.
~ Edward Gibbon
History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.
~ James A. Garfield
Never in the history of chess have so many moves been repeated so often so quickly by so many people who didn't really understand them.
~ Michael Stean
History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.
~ Khalil Gibran
The lesson of history is that no one learns.
~ Steven Erikson
History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.
~ Ludwig von Mises