Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another.

As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he’ll look for his lessons.

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

History repeats the old conceits

One of the lessons you learn from history is that history sometimes teaches the wrong lessons.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it […]

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

Everything is repeated, in a circle. History is a master because it teaches us that it doesn't exist. It's the permutations that matter.

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

Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.