Quotes About Past

Tens o hábito de querer saber por quê - e porque não me interessa, a causa é matéria de passado.

Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the past, they kept fresh and intact their enthusiasm for 'the latest thing'. Fashion dominated their interest: they valued ideas not for themselves but for the prestige that they could wring from them.

First signs of the age when wisdom begins? There are moments when my past makes me ashamed. When I'm embarrassed to have taken so much while giving so little.

The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.

Memory is a tough place. You were there.

The world is wrong. You can't put the past behind you. It's buried in you; it's turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.

There are benefits to being without nostalgia. Certainly nostalgia and being without nostalgia relieve the past.

Time is not a single train, moving in one direction at a constant speed. Every so often it meets another train coming in the opposite direction, from the past, and for a short while that past is with us, by our side, in our present.

One does not need to be able to know the future; one only needs to be conversant with the past in order to guide the present, and the future will attend to itself

The past is like a tattoo. Your life changes, but the tattoo is still there to remind you who you were and you forget who you are.

The familial narratives that are so important to who we are and to how the past is handed from one generation to the next disappeared, including those that remained untold until now. I forgot because so much was being forgotten.

The past is real but marbled by beliefs That turned to myth as time eroded them.

Human experience, like the stern-lights of a ship at sea, illumines only the path which we have passed over.

The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the word "unhistorical".

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.

The poor old Past,The Future's slave.

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.

The present issues from the past, and the future from the present. Everything is made one by this continuity. Time is like a circle, where all the points are so linked that one cannot say where it begins or ends, for all points precede and follow one another for ever.

The word I was typing was always in the past while the word I was thinking of was always in the future, which left the present oddly uninhabited

I told him, for instance, how I had come to experience time differently. The word I was typing was always in the past while the word I was thinking of was always in the future, which left the present oddly uninhabited. He

The future irrupts at all times, wanting to actualize itself in every decision we make; it tries, as hard as it can, to become the past. This is what distinguishes the future from mere fancy. The future happens. The