Ashwin Sanghi Quotes

Without understanding your history, you can't get a perspective about the present.

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

The past has to inform the present.

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

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

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

History is written not only for posterity but by posterity as well.

No people can live in the past - not even in its own past. But if it no longer has a link with its history, it must of necessity perish. Persia, crowded with hardship and glory, ordeals and hopes. With the help of the Almighty, the lessons of the past constitute the best guide for the citizens of the future.

Real stories - whether in pure fiction or historical - have a certain indefinable power; we are endlessly curious about the past and hungry for learning that we hope will illuminate the present.

History lets you know exactly where you are today. And if you pay attention to it, it gives you a broad perspective of everyone. You can relate it to pretty much any time.

I write about modern people who share a deep sense of connection to the mysteries of the past. I find that I understand myself and my world better when I'm able to peer into history as a mirror.

I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.

I think we really forget how connected we are to the past.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Most of us get our history through story.

It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

History is the present day consideration of what went before.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

Ancient histories provide windows to knowing current affairs.

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 simply man’s desperate bid to give substance to his most visionary dreams.