Past Quotes
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear - Brought experience.George Washington
But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.Arthur C. Clarke
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
You can never plan the future by the past.Edmund Burke
Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.Unknown
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.George Bernard Shaw
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.Fritz Perls
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.L. P. Hartley
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.I Ching
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.J. Michael Straczynski
Geschichte ist... ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. re - Transl.: History is... a dialogue between the present and the past.Edward Hallet Carr, Was ist Geschichte?, S. 54
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.Denis Watley
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.Frederick Henry Hedge
So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.Victor Hugo
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.Robert Benchley
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.Dr. Dale E. Turne
Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.John Updike
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.Eric Hoffe
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.Walt Whitman
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.George Eliot
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - Your destiny - Are here and now.Dag Hammarskjold, newpaper quote of the day
To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.R. D. Laing
Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul
Danger past, God forgotten.Scottish Prove
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.George Santayana
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.La Rochefoucauld
Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.Mae West
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.John Milton
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.Gerald Jampolsky
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
This only is denied to God the power to undo the past.Agathon
Forget the past and live the present hour.Sarah Knowles Bolton
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....Ursala Lequin
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.L. P. Hartley, The Go - Between
I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.Patrick Henry
