A Quote by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.
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No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it".
Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.
You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are condemned to reinvent it.
I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.
History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.
The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who don't remember the past are doomed to repeat it.
Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.
As the great philosopher George Santayana would have said, 'those who cannot remember the past . . . should simply read Jan Van Meter's Tippecanoe and Tyler Too.' Van Meter's greatest hits collection of slogans is the catchiest ever retelling of American history. It's like the greatest minds of Madison Avenue sat down to write a history book. They don't make sound bites like they used to!
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