Quotes of: History-repeats-itself Keyword

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Edmund Burke

Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.

Eskinder Nega

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it in summer school

Josh Stern

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Elizabeth Bowen

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.

Taylor Swift

Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.

I Am Number Four

Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.

Peter Lamborn Wilson

Those who don't know their history are defenseless against those determined to repeat it.

Ray Davis

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. ...

Ashwin Sanghi

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

A History of Reading

History was ignorant and had a mean streak, so it tended to repeat.

The Front Porch Prophet

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

Let the Great World Spin

Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.

Thomas Lynch

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

The History of Freedom

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

Ken Kesey

It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God - who knows all th...

Cormac McCarthy

I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.

Jane Smiley

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

Todd Gitlin

Money is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation.

Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises

I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.

Colin Quinn