Quotes About Past

A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.

The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.

Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past? And with its crutch, its old age, and its wisdom, it whispers no this will be the last.

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

Whatever we see, or feel, or do, whatever action there is anywhere in the universe, while being the effect of past work on the one hand, becomes, on the other, a cause in its turn, and produces its own effect.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future. –Lumbee

Our bodies are the burial grounds of dead time.

Chasing the past, I stumbled into the future.

One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.

I'm nostalgic for the anger I once had.

Forgiveness is giving up hope of a better past. —UNKNOWN

Vinden hadde stilnet, og nå, mens luften tyknet og et kobberskarpt lyn fortengte den milde duften av eukalyptus og akasie, mintes hun de første årene av sitt ekteskap. Fortiden tok henne igjen, visket ut nåtiden, og ble så livaktig at det var som om de mellomliggende årene aldri hadde eksistert.

The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.

For some reason the past—any of our pasts—was solidly off-limits. They were like the creepy rabbits in Watership Down who won't answer any questions beginning with "Where.

I hate nostalgia, it's laziness with prettier accessories,

I don't want to give the impression that my life was blighted by what happened at Knocknaree, that I drifted through twenty years as some kind of tragic figure with a haunted past, smiling sadly at the world from behind a bittersweet veil of cigarette smoke and memories.

Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you.

The oldest of the service branches, the Army as an insitution has maintained the protocol, customs, and courtesies of a bygone era. At their best these can be an indearing salute to the past: The gracious homes, the parades and pageantry, the patriotic speeches, the uniforms and balls are all throwbacks to a simpler, more innocent time.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Sometimes, Miss Jarmond, it's not easy to bring back the past. There are unpleasant surprises. The truth is harder than ignorance