Knowledge Quote by Ptahhotep

“When we bury the old, we bury the known past, the past we imagine sometimes better than it was, but the past all the…

— Thomas Lynch

“Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of…

— George Eliot

“Memories of the past are strewn like shards of glass, sometimes, lost in the mist, a distant blur, yet alive. You walk through them,…

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

“A lifetime's knowledge shimmers on the face of the land in the mind of a person who knows. The history of a place is…

— Wendell Berry

“We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have burned out, are no longer in…

— Haruki Murakami

“Everything that belongs to the past seems to have fallen into the sea; I have memories, but the images have lost their vividness, they…

— Henry Miller

“Truth to tell, at any point in our lives we’ve forgotten more than we know about our own history. The world moves on, and…

— Dathan Auerbach

“It’s quite certain there are places to which the whole past is as though attached, on which are traced in secret letters for people…

— Vladimir Odoevsky

“Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves on, and…

— Milan Kundera

“Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the…

— George Orwell

“we can gain experience from the past, but we cant relive it. But we can hope for the future, Its always along side us,…

— Sean Sullivan

“I am beginning to understand the way in which memories hold us, mindfully, to the earth, by the quality of attention paid that they…

— Liz Stephens