Doe Quote by Milan Kundera

“What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said? How can anyone state categorically that a thought he once had is no longer…

— Milan Kundera

“In modern times an idea can be refuted, yes, but not retracted”

— Milan Kundera

I believe that the time given to refutation in philosophy is usually time lost. Of the many attacks directed by many thinkers against each…

— Henri Bergson

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

— Mark Twain

You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.

— Bruce Willis

“history is our attempt to reconstruct the past from the evidence that remains”

— Anonymous

“Thoughts come back; beliefs persist; facts pass by never to return.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There was a level on which I believed that what had happened remained reversible

— Joan Didion

I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

— Charles Van Doren

I don't think it's helpful to go dismantling the past, but you can refuse to honor aspects of it that you don't believe in…

— Winnie Byanyima

“You can't undo the past. And you can't put it back together either.”

— Chris Cole