Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Mark Twain in Eruption: Hitherto Unpublished Pages About Men and Events (1940) edited by Bernard DeVoto
“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”
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Irish playwright 1856–1950Related quotes
“We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.”
Ba Jin (1904–2005) Chinese novelist
As quoted in Pioneers of Modern China : Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese (2005) by Khoon Choy Lee
Context: Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat. … A museum should be established to remind China of the follies and disasters that had fallen from 1966 to 1976. We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.
“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
“Unexpected events happen… always.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Gli eventi inaspettati accadono... sempre. <br class="br">Source: From the radio show Memories http://www.m2o.it/special/memories-reloaded/ conducted by Prevale
“History repeats itself: historians repeat each other.”
Philip Guedalla (1889–1944) British historical writer
" Some Historians http://books.google.com/books?id=E0luAAAAMAAJ&q=%22History+repeats+itself+historians+repeat+each+other%22&pg=PA20#v=onepage," Supers & Supermen: Studies in Politics, History and Letters (1920)
“History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.”
Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
As quoted in Peter's Quotations: Ideas For Our Time (1977) edited by Laurence J. Peter, p. 248
