Quotes About Past

What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?

Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.

Today is a new day. Your future does not equal your past.

We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.

Events in the train of prophecy that had their fulfillment away in the past are made future, and thus by these theories the faith of some is undermined.

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

...can I tell you something...? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.

She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted.

Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

Examine the present and learn from the past to see how the future will unfold. Too often we just look at the present and base our actions solely on that.

We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

..Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.

I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to have no star map for our future.

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

I require distance from the past in order to grasp the future.

The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.