Again and again Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“You are aware, my dear sir,—you must have observed it in your own experience,—that all human progress is in a circle; or, to use…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.

— George Boas

“Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the pocket of a forgotten…

— James Salter

We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear…

— George Washington

In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows up through…

— James Hollis

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

— Marjorie Garber

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.

— Arthur C. Clarke

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

— Martin Luther

History is rooted in the future

— Terence McKenna

If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which…

— Bal Gangadhar Tilak

What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can illuminate the…

— Nawal El Saadawi