"It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself."
― Gertrude Stein
Topic(s): History
― Gertrude Stein
More From Gertrude Stein
- "This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition."
- "But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’"
- "In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody."
More In History
- "Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."― Mahatma Gandhi
- "Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back."― William O. Douglas
- "The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags."― James Buchan