Learning Quote by Penelope Lively

“A stone has been cast into the reliable immutable pond of the past, and as the ripples subside everything appears different. The reflections are…

— Penelope Lively

“The idea of using current distortions to re-create the past was part of an old, now abandoned, vision of the therapist as archaeologist, patiently…

— Irvin D. Yalom

It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also suggests that…

— Mark Foley

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

— Paul Fussell

“Every future we imagine is transformed inexorably into a part of our children's understanding of their past, of the assumptions their parents and grandparents…

— Michael Chabon

We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.

— Craig D. Idso

We all come from someplace. We didn't just get here by accident. Where we come from has got to be known, if you want…

— Edward James Olmos

I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you…

— Felix Dennis

History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens…

— Walter Cronkite

“memories were tricky things…they weren’t stable. they changed with perception over time. …they shifted, and [she] understood how the passage of time affected them.…

— Melissa de la Cruz

Understanding the past is perfectly admissible if your issue is accepting the past. But if your issue is changing the future, understanding will not…

— Marshall Goldsmith

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