History Quote by Mark Twain

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

— Mark Twain

History does not always repeat itself.

— Anonymous

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

— Max Beerbohm

History never repeats itself. Man always does.

— Voltaire

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 is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

— William Graham Sumner

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

— Gertrude Stein

History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.

— Blackie Sherrod

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

— Philip Guedalla

Sometimes history repeats itself. And sometimes it doesn't.

— Adam Curtis