Quotes About Reflection

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?

I'll leave here with my head held high and with confidence that history will judge my time here.

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

We cannot escape history.

...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.

I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will not write about myself, but I am sure that someone will write.

Planning for the future without a sense of history is like planting cut flowers.

If you examine your history, you cannot help but repeat it! Law of Attraction says it is so: 'Whatever I am looking at, I am including in my vibration.'

Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.

Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.

History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

s past history and stand alone.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.