Middle ages Quote by Umberto Eco

“The arrogance of the present is that we think we know more than the past.”

— Tom Roston

“It's said, after all, that people reach middle age the day they realize they're never going to read Remembrance of Things Past.”

— Alison Bechdel

“What is called modern today, tomorrow will be history. What ever you allow to display, don't make of it a mystery.”

— A. Saleh

“They were ancient history. They were so ancient they made ancient history look modern. Well, okay . . . maybe medieval.”

— Roberta Pearce

“He did not know, but presently he would know. Great is information, and she shall prevail.”

— E.M. Forster

“You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.”

— Robert Harris

“...it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up,…

— Louise Penny

“plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.”

— Paulo Coelho

“We know little about history beyond its public displays, and even then what we know is reconstructed.”

— Mark Wallace

“The past informs the present.”

— Fennel Hudson

“Knowledge is a venerable estate; good manners are new dresses; and thinking is clear mirror.”

— Imam Ail

“...what are they but the voice of history multiplied by millions of televisions?”

— Victor Pelevin