Steve Berry Quotes

If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

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

If you don't pay attention to history, you're destined to repeat it.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

History repeats herself.

History teaches everything, even the future.

History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.

No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most of our schools and colleges today pay little attention to history. And many of our current policies repeat mistakes that were made, time and again, in the past with disastrous results.

Even if we remember the past, odds are good we'll still repeat it.

The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

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

I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

History repeats itself because no one listens the first time.

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.

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.

The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.