Books Quote by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.

— Lord Acton

We read the future by the past.

— Alexander Crummell

“Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our enlightenment.”

— Pawan Mishra

My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific…

— Italo Calvino

Today, we are fortunate that the historical novel has reached such extraordinary heights of technical mastery. The ability of society to connect with the…

— Amanda Foreman

In the information age, you can study all you want and discover the past in order to rediscover the future.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

“Study the past to define the future”

— Confucius

“Fueled by the need to interpret the past, to explore the present, and to imagine the future, each generation shapes the world of books.”

— Pawan Mishra

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

— Mary Catherine Bateson

To move out of the patterns of our past and create the future we want we must pass through the gateway of the present

— David Schlussel

The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“We have to know the truth about the past to discover out future.”

— Patti Callahan Henry