87 Quotes About History-repeating-itself

The significance of the effect is determined by the importance of the immediate cause.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

It's easy to write the history. All the eyewitnesses are dead.

I am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume, progressed a great deal over the millennia. Human technology? Of course. Human beings? Hardly.

People are always quick to call evil what they do not know. The unknown sprouts fear. It spreads like an infection, burrowing into every facet of their lives. They need a scapegoat, someone to blame. Fingers are pointed, accusations are made, and a target lands on somebody’s back. They grow angry. They turn violent.To history, human nature must be a stubborn and tiring student. No matter how many times history tries to show it the error of its ways, it never learns from its mistakes.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

Maybe history wouldn't have to repeat itself if we listened once in awhile.

I have seen a stunning amount of death and destruction. Creation yes, but more death than birth. Mankind has learned nothing from their forefathers. Their ancestors. It is true what they say: history does repeat itself, Delacroix, and those after history are left to make it, but how can they,” he removed his hand from the globe, waving it thoughtfully through the air, “when it has already been made?

Disregard for the past will never do us any good. Without it we cannot know truly who we are.