Book Quote by Robert E. Howard

We read the future by the past.

— Alexander Crummell

We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.

— Amanda Harlech

“Who would have thought you could see the future by reading a book about the past?”

— Damien Echols

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

— Blaise Pascal

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“For when we read, don’t we summon the past into the present? Hold out our hand and invite an author to sit with us…

— Ari Berk

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

— Sophie Swetchine

“only if the past is understood can the future be navigated”

— Ross Terrill

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.

— Blaise Pascal

Don't let the darkness of the past cover the brightness of the future

— Anonymous

“The echoes of our past are the hands that shape our future, ringing out with endless percussion, but returning to us only in silence.…

— A.M. Hudson

It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.

— Farley Mowat