A Quote by George Eliot

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

George Eliot

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Apt History Itself Know Repeat

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George Eliot
British - Novelist
November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.

George Eliot

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

Khalil Gibran

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

Max Beerbohm

The State Department has promised they will never have another temporary mission facility like the one in Benghazi that is so lightly protected. But at the same time, history tends to repeat itself here, and so it might not repeat itself in exactly the same way as Benghazi.

Mitchell Zuckoff

"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ... Astronomy repeats itself; botany repeats itself; trigonometry repeats itself; mechanics repeats itself; compound long division repeats itself. Every sum if worked out in the same way at any time will bring out the same answer. ... A great many moderns say that history is a science; if so it occupies a solitary and splendid elevation among the sciences; it is the only science the conclusions of which are always wrong.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

One has to learn from history. Quite frankly, it is almost impossible to have a sense of vision without a sense of history. If history is learned, then it doesn't have to repeat itself over generations.

Kofi Annan

History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.

Mark Twain

They say history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Jake Tapper

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

Gertrude Stein

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

Philip Guedalla

Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

J. D. Hayworth

That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox...

Stanislaw Lem

Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Be not afraid , for all great power throughout the history of humanity has been with the people. From out of their ranks have come all the greatest geniuses of the world, and history can only repeat itself. Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work.