Contempt Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sometimes we praise the way things used to be in order to blame the present, and we esteem what is no longer in order…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows…

— William Temple

Theirs is the present who can praise the past.

— William Shenstone

“There's an old saying about those who cannot remember the past being condemned to repeat it. But those of us who refuse to forget…

— Emily Thorne

“The present era is so proud that it has produced a phenomenon which I imagine to be unprecedented: the present's resentment of the past,…

— Javier Marias

Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to barbarous or…

— William Wilberforce

The more thoughts of the past we carry in our heart. The less capable we are of loving and living in the present.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

We let ourselves down by reminding ourselves about the past when we can worry about the present .

— Noah Stanley

We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility.…

— Maya Angelou

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past…

— Jules Verne

Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.

— Errol Morris

“So you see and judge the present through the eyes of the past and get a totally distorted view of it.”

— Eckhart Tolle