Knowledge of the past is what enables us to mark our…

The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them…

— Lu Xun

Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion.

— El-P

Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledge of the past so…

— Jerome Bruner

With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.

— Kenneth M. Stampp

It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past…

— William Hazlitt

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot…

— C. S. Lewis

“All knowledge—past, present, and future—can be derived from data by a single, universal learning algorithm.”

— Pedro Domingos

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand…

— Lord Acton

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of…

— Annie Besant

Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire…

— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to…

— Lauren Kate

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Without a good understanding of history how can we make informed and therefore good and sensible decisions about current issues? The future then can…

— Keith Tonkin

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever…

— Jean Piaget