Future Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

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

— Kenneth M. Stampp

People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future;

— Nellie L. McClung

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

— Frederick Douglass

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

To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.

— Rachel Carson

The past isn't useful until its place in the present is found.

— Judith Perelman Rossner

The past is all we know of the future.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

— A. J. P. Taylor

We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.

— Claude Shannon

Knowledge of the past is what enables us to mark our forward progress.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson