Earth Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of…

— Margaret Mead

Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledge of the past so…

— Jerome Bruner

With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.

— Kenneth M. Stampp

It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past…

— William Hazlitt

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot…

— C. S. Lewis

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Time is so fast that all times are past times! When you look at a photo of the past, you must know that you…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

— Samuel Johnson

“It is a commonplace that good historians don’t judge statements from past times by the standards of their own.”

— Richard Dawkins

For most of the people there is no today and there is no tomorrow; for them, there is only the past times! Leave your…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Reminiscing about great past times is always a pleasure, so long as reviewing these past times is not used as a way of emphasizing…

— Melchor Lim

Remembering the past times. Those good times. When you were all so happy.

— Anonymous

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the beings that…

— Frederick Lenz