Past Knowledge Quotes

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

It's not about the past; it's about knowing your history so that you can fight in the present. Otherwise, you don't know who the real enemy is, what the real issue is, because it had been covered by many layers of bad information, of lies, and manipulation.

People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.

We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.

A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.

The past is all we know of the future.

Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities.

We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.

It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.

Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past.

It's important to learn the right lessons from the past.

The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.

I used to know all the lyrics to all the songs from 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

Learn your past, find your path.

Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past.

A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take, And warming in our own, A passage back, or two, to make To times when he was young. His quaint opinions to inspect, His knowledge to unfold On what concerns our mutual mind, The literature of old.

Something went wrong. It was correct when I studied it.

Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.