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History Repeats Quotes

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

History repeats itself only in that, from afar, we all seem to lead exactly the same life. We are all born; we all spend time here on earth; we all die. But, up close, we have each walked down our own separate paths. We have stood at our own lonely crossroads. We have touched the lives of others at crucial points, for better or for worse. In the end, each of us has lived a unique life story, astounding and complicated, a story taht could never be repeated.
- Edward Bloor

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

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

History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
- Clarence Darrow

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
- Clarence Darrow

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
- Philip Guedalla

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
- Karl Marx

When you don't change, history repeats itself. Then you have to decide if changing is for the best, or you keep seeing repeats because you're doing something right.
- Rebecca Mckinsey

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.
- Ronald Wright

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