A Quote by Ray Bradbury

Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.

Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury
American - Writer
August 22, 1920 - June 5, 2012

He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it.

Paul Christopher

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

Sara Shepard

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

Daniel Handler

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.

Kurt Vonnegut

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.

Steve Berry

[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy and shallow theological pygmies.

N. T. Wright

We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.

Kurt Vonnegut

Mmm....she's doomed! You're doomed!! They're all doomed! Notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very WISE of me.

Christopher Paolini

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

F. Scott Fitzgerald

One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that even in one's distant past one could recognize the seed from which this doomed flower has bloomed.

Aleksandar Hemon

Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong women the man, many years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order

Thomas Hardy

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat or in film's case 'run on' manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

Andy Warhol

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

Andy Warhol

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