Intimate Quote by C. S. Lewis

We need to think about the future, not the past.

— David Dellinger

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

— Frederick Douglass

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

— Helen Dunmore

The past is all we know of the future.

— Barbara Kingsolver

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

— Sophie Swetchine

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely…

— Paulo Freire

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

— Nellie L. McClung

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can…

— Allan Bloom

Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so…

— Vladimir Nabokov

We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.

— Amanda Harlech

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

— Claude Shannon

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It…

— Alfred North Whitehead