Quotes About Past

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Each day is a little bit of history

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

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."

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history.

Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.

I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

If you don't understand history, you will not be able to deal with today's issues.

...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.

History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.

Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.

History is the memory of things said and done.

History, as they say, is alive and well and living in London.

Not a stone but has its history.