Quotes About History

Without a past you can't have a future.

The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history.

A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.

We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.

We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors without which neither can be seen or happen.

The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been.

Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.

O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

You can't live in history. You've got to build for the future.

If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.

Be nice to your siblings. They are your link to the past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.

Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.

...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.

I adore the past. So much more restful than the present. So much more dependable than the future.

The future is created through memory.

The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.

I'm not the color of my skin. I'm a story. One with a past and a future unwritten.

In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.