Men Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

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

— Winston Churchill

The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.

— V. S. Naipaul

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

— Winston Churchill

Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.

— Anonymous

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

— Alexis de Tocqueville

We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.

— Craig D. Idso

The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present…

— Chanakya

People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future;

— Nellie L. McClung

The past has to inform the present

— John Turturro

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

— Sigmund Freud

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that…

— Julien Benda