Dwell on the past Quote by Matt Rhule

It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There is a…

— Antony Beevor

We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us.

— Lawrence Lessig

I wonder why we hate the past so.

— William Dean Howells

It seems like people don't learn from the past.

— Thomas Peterffy

“When we constantly worry and re-examine the past in order to discover what's wrong with the present, we reinforce the same thought process that…

— Dr. Robert Anthony

Our past has gone into history.

— William McKinley

Because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present.

— Rajneesh

The past is behind us unless we fail to learn from it

— L.M. Fields

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

— Winston Churchill

It's not about the past; it's about knowing your history so that you can fight in the present. Otherwise, you don't know who the…

— Raoul Peck

“History is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past”

— Hilary Mantel

“Where exactly does it come from, I’d like to know, this ineradicable attitude of superiority toward the past? This stubbornly dumb, can’t-kill-it-with-an-ax conviction that…

— Anonymous