Henry Adams Quotes

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned.

History is the same thing over and over again.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking for a round century before going further.

I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

I think history is just so cyclical.

Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

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.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.

All new news is old news happening to new people

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning.

There is nothing new under the sun.

Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?

That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until even if you vanished, the tale would keep turning, keep playing, like a phonograph, and you'd have to get up again, even with a bullet through your eye, to play your part and say your lines.