Quotes About Past

History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.

History...a release from the troublesome promiscuous present.

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.

In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present.

History is absolutely my thing.

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

History is the seed bed of the future.

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

He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history.

The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

Each of us is born with a history already in place

You can take things from the past, from the culture, from the immediate past and things that have not yet entered the culture, so they have no history yet. You can create your own context.

There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

you don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago,

The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.

Mistakes from our collective past are like any other: they require intervention--a remedy--to correct. They don't erase themselves over time.

To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize "how it really was." It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger.

Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing.

History is not another name for the past as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

History is past politics and politics present history.

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.