A Quote by Philip Guedalla

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

Philip Guedalla

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Philip Guedalla
English - Historian
March 12, 1889 - December 16, 1944

"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

History never repeats itself, historians do.

Lee Benson

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

Max Beerbohm

History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true.

G. M. Trevelyan

"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

G. M. Trevelyan

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

Antony Beevor

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

Ronald Wright

I put the truth out there, I put the historical facts into Hip Hop to show us how much history repeats itself and that if we truly want to evolve as a human race, we need to stop sticking each other in ridiculous categories.

Immortal Technique

If you don't learn about each other, you do not understand each other, and you don't hide warts and all, both sides, then you're forever going to repeat history.

Warren Mundine

True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.

Jeremy Grantham

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

Clarence Darrow

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

Clarence Darrow

History repeats itself.

George Eliot

I actually think history doesn't repeat itself. There are recurrent themes, but they're repeated with variations. Each time there's an immigration crisis, a threat from outside which is met with inhospitable wall building, it's different. And I think it's helpful to notice the big patterns in history, but it's also important to pay attention to the details, which makes each situation distinct from another.

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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

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