Past Quotes

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. (Thomas Jefferson)
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. View quote
George Santayana
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
No man is rich enough to buy back his past. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue. View quote
Demosthenes
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors. View quote
Livy
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
We can take from the past its fires, and not its ashes. View quote
Jean Jaures
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. View quote
Oscar Wilde
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. View quote
Golda Meir
Though God cannot alter the past, historians can. (Samuel Butler (novelist))
Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it. View quote
Bruce Willis
Study the past, if you would divine the future. View quote
Confucius
The best prophet of the future is the past. View quote
Lord Byron
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. View quote
George Orwell
Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past. View quote
Sophocles
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. View quote
Euripides
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. View quote
Simone Weil
Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
A revolution is not a trail of roses.... A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past. (Fidel Castro)
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it. View quote
Colette
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. View quote
Albert Einstein
I've always been more interested in the future than in the past. View quote
Grace Hopper
📖 Past Proverbs