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title: "11 Past Learned Quotes by 10 authors"
description: "Browse 11 Past Learned quotes by 10 authors. Discover the best Past Learned sayings and thoughts."
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> [Unfortunately, my departure from Madrid was not pleasant, but those things are in the past, and I have learned a lot and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robinho/unfortunately-my-departure-from-madrid-was-not-pleasant-but-those/)

[Robinho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robinho/)

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> [You can't look up to your future if you have not learnt anything from the past. Have a learned life. Happy Graduation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/you-can-t-look-up-to-your-future-if-you-have-not-learnt-anything-from/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Somewhere in my past, I learned that if you separate yourself, you don't get hurt. Pain can be avoided.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adriana-trigiani/somewhere-in-my-past-i-learned-that-if-you-separate-yourself-you-don/)

[Adriana Trigiani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adriana-trigiani/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e4/adriana-trigiani-1792_hurt-pain_somewhere-in-my-past-i-learned-that-if-y_628183.png)

> [In the end, what matters is not what happened on your past. But, it is on how you learned from your mistakes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernajoy-vaal/in-the-end-what-matters-is-not-what-happened-on-your-past-but-it-is/)

[Bernajoy Vaal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernajoy-vaal/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67b/bernajoy-vaal-524_effort_in-the-end-what-matters-is-not-what-happ_3026573.jpg)

> [Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/thus-through-half-belief-we-are-often-doomed-to-repeat-that-very-past/)

[Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b25/ray-bradbury-75_belief_thus-through-half-belief-we-are-often-do_742206.jpg)

> [The past is where you learned the lesson. The future is where you apply the lesson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikas-runwal/the-past-is-where-you-learned-the-lesson-the-future-is-where-you-2/)

[Vikas Runwal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vikas-runwal/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d17/vikas-runwal-9719_future_the-past-is-where-you-learned-the-lesson_2799850.jpg)

> [Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-true/which-is-not-to-discount-everything-i-ve-done-in-my-past-everything-i/)

[Rachel True](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-true/)

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> [The past is where you learned the lesson. The future is where you apply the lesson. Don't give up in the middle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jesse-joseph/the-past-is-where-you-learned-the-lesson-the-future-is-where-you/)

[Jesse Joseph](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jesse-joseph/)

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> [The history of the past, a hundred years from now, won't be the history of the past that we learned in school…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-gibson/the-history-of-the-past-a-hundred-years-from-now-won-t-be-the-history/)

[William Gibson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-gibson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a87/william-gibson-642_adjectives_the-history-of-the-past-a-hundred-years_2271060.jpg)

> [“The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-r-holland/the-past-is-to-be-learned-from-but-not-lived-in-we-look-back-to-claim/)

[Jeffrey R. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-r-holland/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a5/jeffrey-r-holland-1190_ashes_the-past-is-to-be-learned-from-but-not-l_22122.png)

> [“I plead with you not to dwell on days now gone nor to yearn vainly for yesterdays, however good those yesterdays may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-r-holland/i-plead-with-you-not-to-dwell-on-days-now-gone-nor-to-yearn-vainly/)

[Jeffrey R. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-r-holland/)

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