Donald Glover Quotes

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.

You cannot not know history.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

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.

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.

I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

History isn’t just what happened before we came on the scene. We are a part of history..

The history that lies inert in unread books does no work in the world …. our proper function is not to repeat the past but to make use of it

History is not the past. History is the present. We carry our history with us.

You simply can't understand the present if you don't understand the past. There is no more alarming case study of the consequences of historical ignorance than President Trump.

If you find great difficulty in trying to reckon with the future or even the present, I think it's intuitive to start that process by reckoning with the past.

There's power in turning to the past to illuminate the current state of things.

Modernism is an outmoded way of thinking about design: it just doesn't reflect the way we live now. It always puts forward this idea that the past is irrelevant to tomorrow - and tomorrow is all that matters. But the past is part of who we are.

The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic.

We must do our best to raise the public awareness of the past in all its richness and complexity.

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.

Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.

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

To find out what we presently are and where we are going, we must know what we have been and what others have done; and this, because the humanities are at once the creation and the interpreters of the past, is the great purpose of humanistic scholarship.

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

I do not believe that any man can adequately appreciate the world of to-day unless he has some knowledge of -- a little more than a slight knowledge, some feeling for and of -- the history of the world of the past.