Character Quote by Mark Twain

It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible

— Mark Twain

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

— John Buchan

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

— William Graham Sumner

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

— Max Beerbohm

History does not always repeat itself.

— Anonymous

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

— Khalil Gibran

Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

— W. H. Auden

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

— George Eliot

History never repeats itself. Man always does.

— Voltaire

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

— Gertrude Stein

Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street.

— Edwin Lefevre

The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated.

— Bernhard Schlink