Judging Past Quotes

#1. The lack of historical memory is a serious shortcoming in our society. A mentality that can only say, "Then was then, now is now", is ultimately immature. Knowing and judging past events is the only way to build a meaningful future. Memory is necessary for growth.

Pope Francis

#2. Feelings should always be allowed to be free. You should not judge a future love by past suffering.

Paulo Coelho

#3. We must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it; the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#4. I am all for charity in judging the men who have occupied the Oval Office over the past seventy years, given the huge responsibilities the president carries across the world.

Nigel Hamilton

#5. I quoted to him what I remembered of Charles Darwin: "'Judging by the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity ... '"
"Darwin was right," Nebogipfel said gently.

Stephen Baxter

#6. Conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse.

Charles Darwin

#7. Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

Samuel Johnson

#8. We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.

Craig D. Idso

#9. Don't judge a person by their past. They don't necessarily live there anymore.

Nicky Gumbel

#10. Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.

George Pierce Baker

#11. It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

Charles Spurgeon

#12. History is not just about the analysis of evidence, unrolling vellum documents or answering exam papers. It is not about judging the dead. It is about understanding the meaning of the past - to realize the whole evolving human story over centuries, not just our own lifetimes.

Ian Mortimer

#13. History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

Thomas Jefferson

#14. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

Edward Gibbon

#15. Men will judge your past deeds by your last.

Publilius Syrus

#16. If you truly love someone, you don't judge them by their past. You leave it there. Just be happy that their future belongs to you.

Nishan

#17. Melville has his tics, but he always put his words in the right order. Once you fall under the spell of the writer, you look past those ticks because you are more interested in what the writer says than judging how well he grasped the editorial conventions of his time.

Mary Norris

#18. If we really want "Racial Harmony" in this country, it is time we start judging individuals by the standards of their behaviors and by the criteria of the law, not by the pigmentation of their skin or the past sins or struggles of their forefathers.

Henry Johnson Jr

#19. Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.

Napoleon Hill

#20. A man's judged by what he is and not what he was.

Jack Caldwell

#21. To history has been assigned the office of judging the past, of instructing the present for the benefit of future ages. To such high offices this work does not aspire. It wants only to show what actually [essentially?] happened (wie es eigentlich gewesen).

Leopold Von Ranke

#22. Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.

Charles Darwin

#23. I vote Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.

David Letterman

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

Patrick Henry

#25. I had to learn to forgive myself, not to judge, but to learn from the past. They showed me how vital it is to accept, be truthful, and love myself. So I could do the same with others.

Marlo Morgan

#26. Don't judge me by my past. I don't live there anymore

Zig Ziglar

#27. Judge [Samuel] Alito should see criticism as a badge of honor worn by many past and present members of the Court.

Chuck Grassley

#28. I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.

Thomas A. Edison

#29. It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#30. Every soul has a past
Every soul lives a present
And every soul deserve a future
no judging on one's past
because its might be your future

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