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If the future remains uncertain, we know the past history of nationalism. And that should be sufficient to encourage a habit of watchful suspicion.
— Michael Billig
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
— Peter L. Berger
Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.
— Peter Zumthor
Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Follow your heart. The past is history and tomorrow, well, who knows what tomorrow brings.
— Eve Carter
Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.
— Bettany Hughes
The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.
— John F. Kennedy
Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.
— Ellen G. White
We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.
— William Vogt
History is a slippery business; the past is not a constant but a landscape that mutates according to argument and opinion.
— Penelope Lively
Do not die in the history of your past hurts and past experiences, but live in the now and future of your destiny.
— Michelle Obama
Past a certain point, all the dates grow hazy and confused, and the clarity of history becomes the fog of legend.
— George R R Martin
At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.
— Thomas Carlyle
I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds.
— Bruce Pavitt
History shows us a window into our past. Historical fiction can take us by the and and lead us into that world.
— Judith Geary
Ego is the central figure of our personal history, based upon the past and looking into the future. Ego is the deepest dream of the Consciousness.
— Frank M. Wanderer
I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.
— Claire Tomalin
Grow past your past and march past the flag of the past!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.
— James Martineau
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
— Daisaku Ikeda
It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
— Eugene Jarecki
Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
— Thomas Carlyle
History narrates stories about great men from the past,write your story now and make history
— Mohammed Sekouty
All that matters is this moment and what you make of it, because the past is history and the future is just full of wishes that you can't foresee.
— Austin V. Songer
There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
— Indira Gandhi
Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.
— Marjane Satrapi
History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.
— Henry Clausen
History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind.
— Peter Adejimi
The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.
— Robin G. Collingwood
Some people want the past repeated and have an interest in making sure we don't remember it.
— Paul Krugman
The dead are the past and we cannot escape the past. Without the past there will be no future.
— M.R. Gott
I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now.
— Helmut Lang
The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.
— Otto Von Bismarck
History is what we read, write and think about the past.
— Michael Howard
In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.
— Anthony Doerr
History is about the untold story, and writing historical fiction is a wonderful way to present the past in a compelling and entertaining way.
— Paul W. Feenstra
We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
— Sharon Salzberg
There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed.
— Hannah Lillith Assadi
History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.
— G. M. Trevelyan
History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities.
— Stephen Jay Gould
The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.
— Leon Redbone
Have you ever felt you were born in the wrong decade, or came just a bit too late and missed out on all the good stuff when it was in its heyday?
— E.A. Bucchianeri
When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.
— Martin Luther
In one generation of silent neglect, we have allowed the revisionists of our history to rewrite our past and deny that we have a Christian heritage.
— Rick Scarborough
History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
— Hilary Mantel
The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.
— Felix Frankfurter
History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.
— Arthur Goldberg
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
— Benjamin Cardozo
Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war.
— Shannon L. Alder
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
— Philip Zimbardo
The past is history, the future's a mystery.
— James Toback
History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.
— Ken Burns
History flows neither from the past nor to the future alone: it reverses its course and, when you get right down to it, flows from all the presents.
— Maurice Merleau Ponty
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History is a light that illuminates the past,and a key that unlocks the door to the future. — Runoko Rashidi
The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.
— Geoffrey Elton
I wish I did not know parts of the past; I wish they had never happened. But the past is the past, and someone must remember, and speak of it.
— Robert Jackson Bennett
If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.
— Robert Penn Warren
We view the past, and achieve our understanding of the past, only through the eyes of the present
— E.H. Carr
The difference in the past and history is that the past is set in stone history is just an account from the guy with the strongest axe
— Andy Andrews
The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
— Kara Walker
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
— Golda Meir
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
— Stephen E. Ambrose
To eradicate blindness, let us expand our vision. Let us dream and take actions to make blindness a history from the past.
— Debasish Mridha
History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.
— Robin Hobb
We all inherit damage from the past. We spread it like a virus and don't generally think about it.
— Thomas Norman DeWolf
More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
— Robert Penn Warren
Ignorance and its denial will, sad to say, lead us down the same road as it did in all past history.
— Jordan Maxwell
The day history will die and lose its essence with time, memories will not only die, but they shall also surely be forgotten with time!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply.
— Amit Chaudhuri
