What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.
The events of future history ... will be of the same nature—–or nearly so—–as the history of the past, so long as men are men.
I am more and more impressed with the possibilities of history's repeating itself on many different counts. You don't get very far in Wall Street with the simple, convenient conclusion that a given level of prices is not too high.
The only thing we learn from history, I am afraid, is that we do not learn from history.
Sometimes history repeats itself. And sometimes it doesn't.
Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.
While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.
History is a picture gallery where there are few originals and many copies.
Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.
History repeats itself because no one listens the first time.
I think it's despicable. I also think it's frightening that we seem to live through history over and over again. And I don't know if I'm the only one. I feel like, when you read through history books, you always judge those people in that time.
History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.