Our future depends on how we understand the past.

Love with no boundaries. Your future depends on your capacity to love.

— Paulo Coelho

The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through.

— Xinran

To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our…

— John Clare

“Understanding can lead to liberation. Knowledge can bring freedom from the past. For those who don’t take the time to understand their past and…

— Debra Fileta

“they play fast and loose with both historical fact and traditional religious interpretation in order to understand their past as they believe it must…

— Mary R. Habeck

“you need to understand the past in order to be a part of the future”

— Morgan Wylie

I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for the future.

— John C. Stennis

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

— Daniel Kahneman

“There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.”

— Dana Reinhardt

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are…

— Norman Mailer

“By trying to understand the past on its own terms, the historian treats it with integrity rather than manipulating it or superimposing his or…

— John Fea

“We live in the present all the time and the past does not matter anymore. Only if we can understand this in the past,…

— Q. M. Sidd

By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better & prepare for a better future.

— Nhat Hanh

We understand that anything that's been done in the past has no bearing on what we do moving forward.

— Matthew Slater

A lot of my work with the financial and helping my workers involves taking them back to their past life and helping them to…

— Doreen Virtue