Repetition of History Quotes

What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and have repeatedly led to disaster. Most of these ideas are not new. They are just being recycled with re-treaded rhetoric.

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.

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

"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.

I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

History repeats, but science reverberates.

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

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

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.

Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover.

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.

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

There have always been a large class of thinkers who deny that the world makes any progress. They say we move in a circle; that evils are never conquered, but only change their forms.

History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.

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

All new news is old news happening to new people

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.

There is nothing new under the sun.