“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
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“Those who do not know their history are doomed to keep stepping in it.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
This evokes the famous statement by George Santayana in The Life of Reason Vol. 1 (1905): "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Vorkosigan Saga, The Vor Game (1990)
“Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.”
Hakim Bey (1945) American political writer, poet and essayist
“Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.”
James W. Loewen (1942) American historian
Source: 1990s Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (1995), p. 1
“The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.”
Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin
Source: Let the Great World Spin (2009), Book One: A Fear of Love
“If you don't know your history, you don't know who you are. Holds true for nations too.”
Joanne B. Freeman (1962) US historian and tenured professor of History and American Studies at Yale University
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