Here are 29 thoughtful Quotes of History Repeating Itself:
“Sometimes History repeats itself. And sometimes it doesn’t.”
―Adam Curtis
“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
“Once I beat Gervonta Davis like I’ve been calling it, that’s going to be like history repeats itself with Sonny Liston and Muhammad Ali.”
―Ryan Garcia
“All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.”
―John Baldacci
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
Quotes of History Repeating Itself
“History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.”
― Philip Guedalla
“So the story of man runs in a dreary circle because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.”
― Will Durant
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“Disregard for the past will never do us any good. Without it, we cannot know truly who we are.”
― Syd Moore
“Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.”
― George S. Patton
“Maybe history wouldn’t have to repeat itself if we listened once in a while.”
― Wynne McLaughlin
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“We are tempted to think that we have reached the end of history, that it can never happen again. But history is made every day, sometimes by men of evil. And all too often, history repeats itself. (Holy Father, the Pope)”
― Daniel Silva, The Fallen Angel
“Those who seek to ban books are never on the right side of history. Never.”
― Jon Rosenthal
“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, Survivor
“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”
― George Bernard Shaw
“We’re going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we’re doing, you can say, We’re remembering. That’s where we’ll win out in the long run. And someday we’ll remember so much that we’ll build the biggest goddamn steam shovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“Those who wish to be feared seem to forget humanity’s tendency to kill those they fear.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman
“History is never dead. It crawls its way into our present and shapes our future.”
― J.U. Scribe, Roman Identity
Family histories repeat, Nina thought. For a moment, she wondered if it was pointless to try to escape it.
Maybe our parents’ lives are imprinted within us, maybe the only fate there is is the temptation of reliving their mistakes. Maybe, try as we might, we will never be able to outrun the blood that runs through our veins. Or maybe we are free the moment we’re born. Maybe everything we’ve ever done is by our own hands.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising
“They say pale gilded flowers once blossomed here. They twinkled with excitement beneath the bright ardour of this sun. Each bearing a glint of hope that could heal the most broken of hearts. Yet, in disappointment . . . and regret—I found it to be a lie.”
― H.S. Crow
“I was educated once – it took me years to get over it.”
― Mark Twain
“Every history book, no matter how ostensibly objective, is basically lies filtered through bias and a certain amount of relative ignorance.”
― Nancy Pickard, Bum Steer
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History Repeating Itself Quotes
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
― Karl Marx
“History has shown that even the mightiest of manipulators can be brought to their knees by the power of a united and resolute citizenry.”
― Rove Monteux, What is Wrong with Society Today
“History repeats itself, and that’s one of the things that’s wrong with history.”
― Clarence Darrow
“History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.”
―Quavo
“Often it is in the most squalid and filthiest of places that we can uncover profound truths about a society that considers itself civilized.”
― Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
“I’m a strong believer that you can build great companies in times 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
“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
“I have seen a stunning amount of death and destruction. Creation yes, but more death than birth. Mankind has learned nothing from their forefathers. Their ancestors. It is true what they say: history does repeat itself, Delacroix, and those after history are left to make it, but how can they,” he removed his hand from the globe, waving it thoughtfully through the air, “when it has already been made?”
― S.C. Parris, The Dark World
