Steve Berry Quotes

The only danger of knowing and thinking a lot about history, is that you will trip on something behind you. Be sure you also look ahead.

To look back into the past only makes sense if it serves the future.

Without a past you can't have a future.

History teaches everything, even the future.

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

I like historical things; I like researching things.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

… we should not indulge in looking backwards with envy to the past, but to keep our eyes ahead of us with hope for the future.

Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forwards.

I hope my journals relating to World War II will help clarify issues of the past and thereby contribute to understanding the issues and conditions of the present and future.

We learn from history. That's what it's all about.

I'm a historian. I really like the past. But most people seem far more interested in what you can tell them about the future.

How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past?

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

History is clarified experience.

Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.

I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.

Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.

Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed. . . .