Knowledge Of The Past Quotes

• The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Past, Use It Or Lose It, Use Of Knowledge

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Wisdom, Future, Past

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.

  Lauren Kate

  Past, Important, Information

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

  Marcus Garvey

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Past, Visions Of The Future, Healthy

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• The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Past, Mind

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.442, GENERAL PRESS

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• Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

  C. S. Lewis

  Past, Needs, Study

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• With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.

  Kenneth M. Stampp

  Past, Keys, History

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  Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

  George Santayana

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress", Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense by George Santayana, 1905-1906.

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• Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

  James W. Loewen

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.16, The New Press

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

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

  Errol Morris

  Past, Infancy Is, History

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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.

  Annie Besant

  Country, Past, Judging

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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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

  Lord Acton

  Past, History, Obstacles

  Lord Acton (2016). “Lectures on Modern History: Great Event”, p.4, VM eBooks

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history--while it would not absolutely prove the government was lying in a given instance--might make you skeptical, lead you to ask questions, make it more likely that you would find out the truth.

  Howard Zinn

  Lying, Past, Government

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• The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.

  Virginia Gildersleeve

  Education, Future, Past

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

  Buzz Aldrin

  Optimistic, Past, Opportunity

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• The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Being Happy, Uplifting

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• It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

  Lewis Carroll

  Memories, Carpe Diem, Vision

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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• I am afraid that I do not believe that any body of men can have enough knowledge of the past, the present and the future to establish "development priorities" - which presumably means procuring some developments as being good and prohibiting others as being bad.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Believe, Mean, Past

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 212), March 27, 1968.

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• It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom, or the enjoyment of present blessings, for visionary schemes of ideal perfection. It is the knowledge of the past, the actual infliction of the present, that has produced all changes, all innovations, and all improvements - not (as is pretended) the chimerical anticipation of possible advantages, but the intolerable pressure of long-established, notorious, aggravated, and growing abuses.

  William Hazlitt

  Blessing, Past, Long

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1176, Delphi Classics

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• Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across the millennia to other hearts.

  Loren Eiseley

  Writing, Heart, Past

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