Caitriona Balfe Quotes

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.

I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

Learning from the past helps to ensure that mistakes are not repeated.

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence of it.

There's power in turning to the past to illuminate the current state of things.

We have to learn from the past.

Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.

It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also suggests that this celebration of the end of slavery is an important and enriching part of the history and heritage of the United States.

In any film there's always a historical implication.

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.

I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.

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

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

I'm not particularly fond of the past, but I do ramble on about it quite a bit.

I don't think you learn specific lessons from history, but you do learn proportion.

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

Writing history is writing the soul of the past...