Advice Quote by George Santayana

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set…

— George Santayana

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set…

— George Santayana

History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does…

— John Buchan

I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.

— Italo Svevo

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future

— Robert Smithson

But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future. —Charlie

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence.

— Pope John Paul II

He who cannot remember the past is condemned to remember the past. Or something.

— Sarah Palin

One of the keys to learning for me has been to not get so hung up on the past. It's important to remember the…

— Georges St-Pierre