George Washington Quotes

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

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.

The past has nothing more to teach us. Then why not let it be …. We must look ahead …. Unless we learn to forget, we will be turned into a pillar of salt.

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

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.

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.

You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

If we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing our future.

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

History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them.

lessons must be learned anew by each succeeding generation, and that generation is fortunate indeed which learns from other than its own bitter experience.

We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future. Spinoza, I think, pointed out that we ourselves can make experience valuable when, by imagination and reason, we turn it into foresight.

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

When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that.

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

We have to learn from the past.

History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.

To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.

You make mistakes in your life, especially when you're young.

We cannot keep on carrying burdens of the past and keep ruining our future.

We have to learn from our mistakes. But it's part of my game; I won't be arrogant of saying that I will keep doing this. We have to learn from our mistakes.

The thing about wisdom is you store the past in your head.

For me, I love the path that I have taken on. I take all of my experiences; I eliminate all of the bad and take all of the positive.