Parent Quote by Herbert Spencer

The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.

— Publilius Syrus

The past is the father of the present.

— Agatha Christie

He who lives to forget his past lives to die of his past. Knowing the past, and keeping the past helps us to shape…

— Anthony Ugwuoke

“anyone can create the future but only a wise man can create the past”

— Vladimir Nabokov

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

— Frederick Henry Hedge

“The past is bound to be fragmentary, bound to be reconstructed, bound to be reinvented. It serves only to collect the truths of today.…

— Amin Maalouf

The wise man looks back into the past, and does not grieve over what is far off, nor rejoice over what is near; for…

— Laozi

The future belongs to those who survive their past.

— Nishan Panwar

Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future exists in the past.

— Truman Capote

Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.

— Truman Capote

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man who broods over the past can never master the difficulties of today. Every wise man learn to forget.

— Herbert Newton Casson