Michael Korda Quotes

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

The further backward we look, the further forward we are likely to see.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

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

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

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

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.

It would be well if, in studying the past, we could always bear in mind the problems of the present

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.

I'm always wary of the lessons of the past. There's a lot of past out there, and you can draw whatever lessons you want.

Treat the past as a school.

The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

The past gives great examples of what can happen in the future. It's always important to remember.

One has to learn from history. Quite frankly, it is almost impossible to have a sense of vision without a sense of history. If history is learned, then it doesn't have to repeat itself over generations.

It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.