“It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.”
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Wars I Have Seen (1945)
“History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.”
As quoted in Peter's Quotations: Ideas For Our Time (1977) edited by Laurence J. Peter, p. 248
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“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 doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
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“History repeats itself all the time on Wall Street.”
Edwin Lefèvre book Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
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“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.
“History, it has been said, never repeats itself but historical situations recur.”
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
Earthlight, p. 347
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher
Pt. III, ch. 1, sec. 7.
1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)