Past Quotes

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
Rene Descartes
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10, 000 men to guard the past.
Maurice Masterlinck
Samuel butle - god cannot alter the past, but historians can....
When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.
Martin Luthe
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
Demosthenes, First Olynthiac
The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.
Samuel Butler, 1835 - 1902
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
Gerald r. ford - as i rejected amnesty, so i reject revenge. i ask...
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley
It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past...
Mikhail Gorbachev, (1988)
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
Russell Hoban
Napoleon bonaparte - history is the version of past events that people...
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
Andr Gide
Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.
Ken Lancaste
We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Sir Winston Churchill
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Charles R. Swindoll
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
Sir William Osle
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.
Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.
R. D. Laing
One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.
Anatole France
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - - In himself.
Erich Frohm
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
Fritz Perls
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.
Jean De La Bruyere
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - Your destiny - Are here and now.
Dag Hammarskjold, newpaper quote of the day
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Denis Watley
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Jim Bishop
This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides, Phrixus
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides
Study the past if you would define the future.
Confucius
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard