Rithy Panh Quotes

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.

In terms of the past, I think we've all learned from the past. I think that's great wisdom.

The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

If one does not forget one's previous experience, one can learn for the future from the past.

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

Think about the past to learn, but move forward.

I can't change history but only learn from it.

The only reason I look back is to check if I've been doing something wrong. I look at things from even three years ago and think, 'I wouldn't do that now.' Your life changes.

The great thing about a reboot is, you can learn from the past if you care enough.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

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

We have all examined our past critically and are very much aware of even the unpleasant things. Now, we need to look at what we plan to do with the lessons we have learned from the past.

Hopefully as a country, that we learn from our mistakes of the past.

If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

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

Our goal is to move forward, but we know that to avoid falling backward, we must be willing to look backward and to come to terms with what happened in the past.

It's not just that the lows make the highs more meaningful. They actually help you figure stuff out. You have to work out where you went wrong and what you need to do to get better.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.

I think, over the years, I've kind of evolved.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

You can never plan the future by the past.