Time Quote by Robert W. Hanning

“The illusion that one has understood the past feeds the further illusion that one can predict and control the future. These illusions are comforting.…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it’s then, its…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“There is titillating pleasure in looking back at the past and asking oneself, 'What would have happened if...' and substituting one chance occurrence for…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or…

— Ansel Adams

“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

“The past only exists in the minds of those who choose to recall it.”

— Marjorie F. Baldwin

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

— Anonymous

To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a memory as…

— Walter Benjamin

“Today we see the art of the past as nobody saw it before. We actually perceive it in a different way.”

— John Berger

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

“Living in the here and now, we are awash with sensations of the present, memories of the past, and expectations and fears for the…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“Where exactly does it come from, I’d like to know, this ineradicable attitude of superiority toward the past? This stubbornly dumb, can’t-kill-it-with-an-ax conviction that…

— Anonymous