Past Quotes

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
Antoine Rivarol
Israel zangwill - the past: our cradle, not our prison; there is...
Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.
Herb Brody
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Fritz perls - to mature means to take responsibility for your...
Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
Sophocles
Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.
Saturday Review
Richard von weizscke - all of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or...
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
Russell Hoban
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Lewis Mumford
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
Sir William Osle
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
Miguel de Cervantes
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Ronald Reagan
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - - Making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
Susan Sontag
The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H. G. Wells
History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
George Macaulay Trevelyan
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides, Phrixus
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.
Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
Samuel Butle
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.
Frank Herbert, Dune
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
Andr Gide
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
Lillian Hellman
The past is a guide post, not a hitching post.
L. Thomas Holdcroft
Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.
Oprah Winfrey
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
Arthur Wing Pinero
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard
Even God cannot change the past.
Agathon
The past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. Wells
As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak she gave me a younger brother named Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.
Bill Cosby
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha
We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Past and to come seem best things present worst.
Mary Bertone
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - - In himself.
Erich Frohm