Exes Quote by Paul Fussell

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.

— Paul Fussell

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

— Helen Dunmore

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

— A. J. P. Taylor

You have to know the past to understand the present.

— Carl Sagan

The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.

— Adele Parks

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

The past assumes the nature of the present.

— Oliver Stone

In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to…

— Sigmund Freud

Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.

— Danica Patrick

You can be aware of your past without being it.

— Geneen Roth

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

— Anonymous