History Quote by Paul Fussell Download Open image “Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.” — Paul Fussell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Knows Learning Past Pretending Time Understanding
Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
If you don't know the difference between past and present, you will not understand the future. — John Elwin Copy Share Image
If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future; — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
The past is ignorant of the present. Be careful in taking its advice. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes. — Adele Parks Copy Share Image
All forms of learning rely on your ability to continually reference the past. If you think about it, many wise decisions you have made… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
“The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class. ” — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
The balls used in top class games are generally smaller than those used in others. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, . . . for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the spirit and… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
