Disadvantage Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who…

— Aristotle

Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.

— Boyd K. Packer

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

— Sigmund Freud

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

— Walter Lippmann

I am afraid that I do not believe that any body of men can have enough knowledge of the past, the present and the…

— John James Cowperthwaite

Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it…

— V. S. Naipaul

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

— Oscar Wilde

What men have thought about life in the past is less important than what you feel about it to-day.

— Susan Glaspell

Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.

— Karl Marx

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

— Aldous Huxley

Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have…

— Jean de la Bruyere

A mans present can sometimes be judged by his past.

— Vikrant Parsai