Details Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

How we think about the future and the past determines everything about how we think about our situation as human beings.

— Lee Smolin

If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.

— Helen Dunmore

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history.

— Donald Trump

The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is…

— Esther Hicks

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

— Frederick Buechner

Past is what we can just imagine but can

— Rhugved Kandpile

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

— Margaret Atwood

When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.

— Natasha Trethewey

The past assumes the nature of the present.

— Oliver Stone

You can't really live in the past because the present is always present.

— John Benjamin Hickey