Ken Burns Quotes

It is not well to go into things long past, unless to learn something for our present guidance.

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

The future is unknowable, but the past may give us hope.

You cannot alter the past. You can only learn from it, and … history is the best teacher.

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.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

We cannot undo the past but we can learn from it, and we cannot predict the future but we can shape and build it.

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

I have been compelled to dig deep inside and pull out strengths I never knew I possessed in order to protect my family.

The point is, this is a way to help inoculate me about what has come and is coming.

Your life is a learning process - you can only become wiser from learning. Sometimes you might have to attract making a painful mistake to learn something important, but after the mistake you have far greater wisdom. Wisdom cannot be bought with money - it can only be acquired through living life. With wisdom comes strength, courage, knowing, and an ever-increasing peace.

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

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

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

The question is not, will there be difficulties and threats to our existence, but how will we deal with them and what can we learn from them. How can they become blessings to society, as a life threatening disease is to an individual, by teaching us about the meaning of our life and existence?

I think in every lesson there's a blessing, and there's so many blessings from all the lessons I've had to go through in life.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

I believe my past is my strength.