Convenient Quote by Ezra Pound

History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.

— Robert Breault

The past is all we know of the future.

— Barbara Kingsolver

History goes in cycles.

— Matteo Salvini

The past is just data. I only see the future.

— Ayrton Senna

Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who…

— Alan Lightman

Looking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that live in…

— George MacDonald Fraser

History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Some people say history moves in a spiral, not the line we have come to expect. We travel through time in a circular trajectory,…

— Ocean Vuong

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

— Pearl Bailey

“We do not know who realized that there was an element missing but we owe whoever it was a great debt. We can imagine…

— Lee Smolin

The past is there, but life is circular. I have a strong sense of the circularity of time.

— Richard Flanagan

History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly…

— Anonymous