A Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

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.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
American - Novelist
Born: February 21, 1962

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

James W. Loewen

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

Errol Morris

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

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".

Benjamin Graham

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.

George Santayana

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.

David Hackett Fischer

Those who don't remember the past are doomed to repeat it.

Sara Shepard

Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.

Errol Morris

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.