Quotes About History

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.

The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.

What is now in the past was once in the future

So much of our future lies in preserving our past.

The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.

The future is the keeper of the memories of the past

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

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

When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.

There's no doubt if you could go 5, 10, 15 million years into the future and dig down to 2016, you would be able to find the geological evidence that humans occupied the planet.

I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling.

In your past lies your future. [Acheron Parthenopaeus]

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

Today, nobody cares about European culture. We have a tradition, a vision, a culture of the past, we have legacy, but we don't have a present culture and we don't have a future.

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

I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.

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

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

He [Winston Churchill] has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.

Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.