A Quote by Guy Gavriel Kay
Even if we remember the past, odds are good we'll still repeat it.
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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.
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.
Those who don't remember the past are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!
Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember 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.
Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.
When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.
We've got a form of brainwashing going on in our country…. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. MORE IS GOOD. MORE IS GOOD. We repeat it--and have it repeated to us--over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.
Odds are you know some narcissists. Odds are they're smart, confident and articulate. They make you laugh, they make you think; the first time you met, they probably charmed the pants off of you - perhaps even literally. The odds are also that that spell didn't last.
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".
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