Our past Quote by Robert Jackson Bennett

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

— Umberto Eco

The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future

— Ayi Kwei Armah

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

— A. J. P. Taylor

“Memories are peculiar...You think the past is there, all fixed and stable, but it is really chock full of surprises and endlessly susceptible to…

— Elizabeth Arthur

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

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

— Kiran Desai

If we continue to keep looking back at our past experiences. We are doing nothing more than wasting our present and spoiling, Our future.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

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

The past may dictate who we are, but we get to determine what we become.

— Stephen Spielberg

To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It is existence…

— Anonymous

The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and,…

— Yukio Mishima

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

— Frederick Buechner