My understanding of the past has been savagely undermined.

“A stone has been cast into the reliable immutable pond of the past, and as the ripples subside everything appears different. The reflections are…

— Penelope Lively

“The idea of using current distortions to re-create the past was part of an old, now abandoned, vision of the therapist as archaeologist, patiently…

— Irvin D. Yalom

It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also suggests that…

— Mark Foley

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.

— Paul Fussell

“Every future we imagine is transformed inexorably into a part of our children's understanding of their past, of the assumptions their parents and grandparents…

— Michael Chabon

We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.

— Craig D. Idso

We all come from someplace. We didn't just get here by accident. Where we come from has got to be known, if you want…

— Edward James Olmos

I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you…

— Felix Dennis

History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens…

— Walter Cronkite

“memories were tricky things…they weren’t stable. they changed with perception over time. …they shifted, and [she] understood how the passage of time affected them.…

— Melissa de la Cruz

Understanding the past is perfectly admissible if your issue is accepting the past. But if your issue is changing the future, understanding will not…

— Marshall Goldsmith

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post…

— Paul Fussell

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

— Eugene Jarecki

The ability of the market to serve society gas been and is continually being undermined by the attacks levelled by its ideological opponents.

— Israel Kirzner

Let's demonstrate, illustrate, the ways in which our communities are being undermined time and time again, and make sure that the broader public and…

— Opal Tometi