Quotes About Past

elaborated the notion of procedural memories based on the nonconscious implicit use of past experience

If you're looking for family entertainment, don't study history or prehistory.

Which to me means that one must respect not just the story but the way in which it develops; judging the past by the standards of the present sheds little light on understanding, it represents no more than the I-told-you-sos of history.

Nothing corrupts like happiness. It makes us think that since we share this moment, we can also share the past.

The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape.

Linear time has to be envisaged as a huge, endless knife blade scraping its way across the universe, and drawing it along with it. In its wake it leaves an endless broad stripe of past time, ahead of it lies the future, on the knife edge lies the present, in which we live.

I forget what lies behind," wrote Paul, but he didn't forget past events, because he had just listed them. He forgot their meaning. They no longer meant shame; they meant glory and wonder.

I'm sure that's when you really know you are happy - when you wake up wanting to embrace your future, rather than trying to squirm away from your past.

We're not very good as a species at looking into the future. It's much easier to look back at the past. We can edit out the bits we don't like, reinvent ourselves. But there's nothing about the future we can edit or reinvent. Most people are prisoners of the future just as much as they are prisoners of their genes.

For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.