Quotes About History

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

We read the future by the past.

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

In my view you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age.

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.

As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.

Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

If you want to know the future, look at the past.

As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.

The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future...

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

Legends that endure in the future...were events that took place in the distant past.

History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.

The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

If you don't understand the past, the future won't make much sense either.

U.S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor.

Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.