Form Quote by Sophocles

The past assumes the nature of the present.

— Oliver Stone

Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present

— Chogyam Trungpa

If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.

— Winston Churchill

If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

— Winston Churchill

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

— George Bernard Shaw

The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.

— Meredith Hall

It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a…

— John Quincy Adams

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

— Swami Vivekananda

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

— Oscar Wilde

To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.

— Rachel Carson

Your present is the outcome of your past decisions.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

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

— Frederick Buechner