Quotes About Past

Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.

A spotted sow stretched out in front of her owner's house, her head pillowed on the doorstep, opened her eye to study Faucon as he rode past.

She stared into his eyes. He had a way of catching her completely off guard. Always had. Even back when they'd been friends, back before she and Jack had gotten together.

Tonight had given her hope. Maybe he had grown up, learned a thing or two over the years. Maybe it was time to put the past behind her. Maybe they could live in harmony for the next several months. If she could just ignore the chemistry and block out his handsome face, maybe they could manage a cautious friendship.

Dan thought of love as defined by books, cobwebbed and hidden from view by the past. Too bad a love like that didn't actually exist. In the twentieth century one had to fake it.

Nostalgia is your remembrance of the things in the past, not necessarily as they were in reality. Nostalgia is often negative, and yet it can sometimes trigger a positive phenomenon that works exactly in reverse. Nostalgia can lead to strong yearnings for discovering new lands, exploring newer oceans, and offering your unlimited creativity in most unfamiliar spaces - everything that is beyond your normal limitations, and outside your comfort zone.

Today is the new day. The darkest night is long gone. Yesterday has become the past. Tomorrow is just an illusion. So, enjoy Today! Enjoy this moment! Welcome Today!

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain for ever a child. For what is the value of a human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.

Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings.

The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

History is our guide, and without a knowledge of history, we are lost!

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.

People of vision gauge decisions on the future; the story of the past cannot be rewritten.

In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.

People who stop learning become the owners of the past. People who still continue to study will be the future owners.

A learning machine is any device whose actions are influenced by past experience.

Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.

Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.

I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it.