Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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.

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

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

It is history that teaches us to hope.

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

Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present.

I suppose . . . in writing you can't have regrets. I mean, you just get it down the way it was . . . it's only wishful thinking that things could be other than they were.

There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.

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

We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.

True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even vicariously for those who cannot speak for themselves any longer. We have to accept that we do what we do for generations past, present and yet to come. That is what makes a community a community or a people a people-for better or for worse.

We only have the past that we have. Not all of our deeds were incorrect.

The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind.

Everyone must learn from the past.

When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.

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

History is our guide, and without a knowledge of history, we are lost!

They say not to look back, but if you’re not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?

The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.

To-day is the pupil of yesterday

The past is a closed door.

If history teaches anything, it teaches humility.

All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.