Bridges Quote by Kenneth E. Boulding

The human experience can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all decisions are of the past, all decisions are about the…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

How we think about the future and the past determines everything about how we think about our situation as human beings.

— Lee Smolin

A lot of people go through life like they are rowing a boat. They look at where they have been (the PAST) rather than…

— Anonymous

“It's a bit counter-intuitive to think about the future in terms of the past. But...I've learned an important trick: to develop foresight, you need…

— Jane McGonigal

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

— Sophie Swetchine

Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview…

— Anonymous

Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The past is a fog on our minds. The future? A complete dream. We can't neither guess the future, neither change the past.

— Shams Tabrizi

If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.

— Helen Dunmore

We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.

— Amanda Harlech

There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But…

— Eleanor Brown

People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future;

— Nellie L. McClung