Past Quotes - page 3

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. (Søren Kierkegaard)
Like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. View quote
A. J. P. Taylor
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future. View quote
Winston Churchill
I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future. View quote
Hippocrates
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now. View quote
Bill Cosby
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. (John Updike)
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. View quote
Israel Zangwill
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. View quote
William Ellery Channing
The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. View quote
Charles Lindbergh
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable. View quote
George S. Patton
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. View quote
E. M. Forster
The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle. View quote
James Hutton
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. (Maya Angelou)
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors. View quote
Livy
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
I think we agree, the past is over. View quote
George W. Bush
Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal. View quote
Lawrence Lessig