Time Quote by Javier Marias

“The arrogance of the present is that we think we know more than the past.”

— Tom Roston

“But the past is the biggest country of all, and there's a reason one gives in to the desire to set stories in the…

— Susan Sontag

“Yes, we have acquired a certain familiarity with the recent history of our surroundings, and that—in my humble opinion—allows us to put the present…

— Mohsin Hamid

“The frontier will nevertheless survive in the attitudes a few of us inherited from it. One of those attitudes--to me a beatitude--is the conviction…

— Shirley Abbott

“The past prepares us for the present.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its contents -- contents which can fill…

— Dag Hammarskjold

“Forget not the past. The past prepares us for the present. The present equipped us for the future.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Few people are capable of concerning themselves with the most recent past. Either the present holds us violently captive, or we lose ourselves in…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The legacy of the past is the foundation of the present.”

— Anonymous

“[Nostalgic sentiments] are nothing other than the rosy illumination of a past that has been spared the shadows of the present.”

— Georg Simmel

“In these days, when all things and memories of the past are at length become not only subservient to, but submerged by, the matters…

— Ptahhotep

It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today.

— Anonymous