Ray Bradbury Quotes

When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then.

The facile delusions which conceal from us our true situation all amount to this: that we are, or can be, wiser than the wisest men of the past. We are thus induced to play the part, not of attentive and docile listeners, but of impresarios and lion-tamers.

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

History repeats itself because no one listens the first time.

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past.

Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.

The one of the great sadnesses of any life is knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.

It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.

So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.

There's a lot of things in my past that wouldn't have necessarily been my choices but at the same time, going back in time and changing something, I wouldn't want to do that because I like where I came out.

Regrets and Mistakes, they're Memories made

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed that happiness we might have found!

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds - and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own.

Hindsight is illuminating but not always what we want to see.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

A world of "if"s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time... but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.

We were ignorant, and we were ignorant of the fact that we were ignorant. That is ignorance squared, and it can lead to disaster.

He never knew when he was whipped ... So he never was.