Earthlight, p. 347
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)
Source: In Praise of Philosophy (1963), p. 57
“History repeats itself: historians repeat each other.”
" 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.”
As quoted in Peter's Quotations: Ideas For Our Time (1977) edited by Laurence J. Peter, p. 248
“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
Origins unclear. Earliest known match in print comes from 1970, in a collection called “Neo Poems” by Canadian artist John Robert Colombo, who recalled reading it sometime in the 1960s. Twain did say "History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends." in the 1874 edition of “The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day”. A thematic precursor, "History May Not Repeat, But It Looks Alike", appears in a 1941 article by Chicago Tribune in Illinois. (Source: Quote Investigator https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes/)
Misattributed
“It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.”
Wars I Have Seen (1945)
“History repeats itself all the time on Wall Street.”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XVIII, p. 217
