George Santayana Quotes

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

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

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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

Instead of turning away from our neighbors, our friends, our colleagues, let us instead learn from our history and avoid repeating the mistakes of our past.

If you don't pay attention to history, you're destined to repeat it.

All of us benefit from remembering our past. A people which remembers does not repeat past errors; instead, it looks with confidence to the challenges of the present and the future.

Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.

Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.

Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

We who once were fools and dreamers, then shall we be brave and wise.

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

You don't want to try to recreate something you've already done.

I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.

Hollywood looks backwards and tries to repeat. And we really try not to do that. We don't always succeed, but I really think that what we try and do is different.

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

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Most people don't remember names, for the simple reason that they don't take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy.

Everyone must learn from the past.

Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.

The saying, "Those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it" doesn't just apply to politicians and world leaders, it applies to all of us on a daily basis.