The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present. — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
If you don't understand the past, the future won't make much sense either. — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
“you need to understand the past in order to be a part of the future” — Morgan Wylie Copy Share Image
If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
A friend is someone who understand your past, believes in your future, and accepts you today just the way you are. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for… — John C. Stennis Copy Share Image
We understand that anything that's been done in the past has no bearing on what we do moving forward. — Matthew Slater Copy Share Image
“There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change… — Dana Reinhardt Copy Share Image
By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better & prepare for a better future. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“He'd viewed the past like Uncle Joseph's grave, an empty hole without life, waiting to be filled in by him. It never… — Vivian LeMay Copy Share Image
“Listen. The past will become the present and the future will unfold before your eyes. Sometimes when you are alone it is… — William Diehl Copy Share Image
“Understanding can lead to liberation. Knowledge can bring freedom from the past. For those who don’t take the time to understand their… — Debra Fileta Copy Share Image
In my work as a historian and in my relationships as a friend, teacher, wife, and mother, I have come to think… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“By trying to understand the past on its own terms, the historian treats it with integrity rather than manipulating it or superimposing… — John Fea Copy Share Image
“We live in the present all the time and the past does not matter anymore. Only if we can understand this in… — Q. M. Sidd Copy Share Image
You simply can't understand the present if you don't understand the past. There is no more alarming case study of the consequences… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have… — William Vogt Copy Share Image
“they play fast and loose with both historical fact and traditional religious interpretation in order to understand their past as they believe… — Mary R. Habeck Copy Share Image
People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
A lot of my work with the financial and helping my workers involves taking them back to their past life and helping… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
