Alvin Toffler Quotes

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won.

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

We have nothing to fear from the truth – or the past – If we learn from it.

Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

One has to learn from history. Quite frankly, it is almost impossible to have a sense of vision without a sense of history. If history is learned, then it doesn't have to repeat itself over generations.

One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.

It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.

Some say, 'Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.' I say, 'Those who ignore history are in for a big surprise.'

I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.

The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.

Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.

Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.

We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history.

I'm the type that thinks if you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it.

The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.

The past is what we have to learn about how to direct America to the future.

If we want a new future that does not look like our past, we must make new choices in the present.