Brad Henry Quotes

The past has to inform the present.

History is the best guide to the future.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

The further backward we look, the further forward we are likely to see.

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.

You're always trying to learn from the past to plot a course in the future that will be better. You're always trying to learn.

Sometimes, to move into the future, you must go back the past.

Everyday decision-making around the world is constantly based on what came before us.

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.

In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.

I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

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.

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

We are products of the past and its useful to remember that as we move into the future.

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.