Past Quotes

Study the past if you would define the future.
Confucius
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past.
Unknown
L. thomas holdcroft - the past is a guide post, not a hitching post....
Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.
Dan McKinnon
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.
Ken Lancaste
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.
Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
Jean de la bruyere - children have neither a past nor a future. thus...
Even God cannot change the past.
Agathon
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High - Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit - If totally different in form - From all the romantic architecture of the past.
Dan Cruickshank
I think we agree, the past is over.
George W. Bush, On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000
Throwing a fastball to Henry Aaron is like trying to sneak the sun past a rooster.
Curt Simmons
Patrick henry - i know of no way to judge the future but by the...
Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past. I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.
Bob Dylan, "If you see her, say hello".
This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
Jawahar Lal Neheru
Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
Sophocles, Trachiniae
The first recipe for happiness is Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andr Maurois
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
Isabelle Eberhardt
Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past.
George Steine
He who controls the past controls the future.
George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty - Four".
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.
Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.
Michael Cibenko
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw
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
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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
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
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
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
Cicero
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.
Dan Quayle
Look back, and smile on perils past.
Sir Walter Scott
Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.
Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions.
William Wordsworth
The mind of man is capable of anything - - Because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
Joseph Conrad
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas Carlyle
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
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
Israel Zangwill