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

History, it has been said, never repeats itself but historical situations recur.

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

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

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed 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.

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.

History does not repeat itself, but our reading of history shapes our perception of the world and our vision of how to change it. With the collective rendering of woman's legacy still to come, we will reckon a course that transforms our reading of the human experience and allows us to navigate through hitherto unknown waters. (p 151)

History repeats itself: historians repeat each other.

If we do not learn from history we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that would be worse. Alvin Toffler

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

This tendency of mankind to do, in general, this year what it did last, in spite of changes in some one department of life, — such as substituting a president for a king, traveling by rail instead of on horseback, or getting the news from a newspaper instead of from a neighbor, — results in what is called the unity or continuity of history. The truth that no abrupt change has ever taken place in all the customs of a people, and that it cannot, in the nature of things, take place, is perhaps the most fundamental lesson that history teaches. Historians sometimes seem to forget this principle, when they claim to begin and end their books at precise dates.

As they say, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

We are not doomed to make history repeat itself; it is open to us, through our own efforts, to give history, in our case, some new and unprecedented turn. As human beings, we are endowed with this freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.