He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality. — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through. — Xinran Copy Share Image
The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present. — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future; — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Everything has a past. Everything a person, an object, a word, everything. If u dont know the past, u cant understand the… — Hemantsmarty Copy Share Image
To understand the present with its full, rich significance, the mind must free itself from the habit of self-protecting acquisition; when it… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“If you want to understand the present, look at the past. If you want to know the future, look at the present.… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“He who does not know the past can never understand the present, and he certainly can do nothing for the future.” — John Diefenbaker Copy Share Image
The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.” (Analects 2.11) — Confucius Copy Share Image
Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the present moment with the people you love. It's… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
We all come from someplace. We didn't just get here by accident. Where we come from has got to be known, if… — Edward James Olmos Copy Share Image
The past is the prism through which we see a great, great, great deal of ourselves; it's a useful prism. It doesn't… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
“The notion that one must know history in order to understand the present has a certain justification when applied to the history… — Michael Heinrich Copy Share Image
“It’s as if once you feel a connection with someone, you assume it will always be so. The sum of daily interactions… — Kate Murphy Copy Share Image
An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
