Top 100 Understand The Past Quotes
#1. The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
A.J.P. Taylor
#2. I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for the future.
John C. Stennis
#3. If you don't understand the past, the future won't make much sense either.
DJ Spooky
#4. The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.
Daniel Kahneman
#5. I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.
Glen Cook
#6. My memories always clutch my brain to understand the past
Munia Khan
#7. There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.
Dana Reinhardt
#8. A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.
Wendell Berry
#9. you need to understand the past in order to be a part of the future
Morgan Wylie
#10. By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better & prepare for a better future.
Nhat Hanh
#12. If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.
Helen Dunmore
#13. There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading.
Eric Thomas
#14. Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.
Harry Browne
#15. But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.
Aldous Huxley
#16. Divination is the quest to understand more about the past, present, and future. In other words, Tarot readings are an attempt to understand ourselves better and discover how we might live better in the future.
Theresa Cheung
#17. 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
#18. People instinctively turn to the past to understand the present. But the questions the historian asks are given to him or her by the world they live in.
Eric Foner
#19. I find myself wanting to congratulate past-me for doing or saying whatever it was that caught Ansel's attention in the first place and-by some act of God or alcohol I still don't understand-held it. Sometimes, I think, past-me is a genius.
Christina Lauren
#20. The future, for me, is romantic, I don't understand people who say the past is romantic. Romantic, for me, is something you don't know yet, something you can dream about, something unknown and mystical. That I find fascinating.
Raf Simons
#21. Learn to see past the flaws and you will understand the perfection of the Universe.
Ka Chinery
#22. How true,' returned the measured, featureless voice. 'I would chuckle in amused agreement, but the laughter switches of my translator have been malfunctioning for the past six hours. You understand.'
'Certainly,' I said. And somehow felt much more comfortable.
Samuel R. Delany
#23. We explain by means of purely intellectual processes, but we understand by means of the cooperation of all the powers of the mind in comprehension. In understanding we start from the connection of the given, living whole, in order to make the past comprehensible in terms of it.
Wilhelm Dilthey
#24. You need to understand something. Forgiveness isn't an emotion. It's an action, and it's a choice. It's the choice to not let the past affect how you feel about her.
Elizabeth Finn
#25. we are in one of those great historical periods that occur every 200 or 300 years when people don't understand the world anymore, and the past is not sufficient to explain the future
Kim S. Cameron
#26. As far as you are concerned the present is your point of action, focus and power, and from that point of volition you form both your future and past. Realizing this, you will understand that you are not at the mercy of a past over which you have no control.
Seth
#27. To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
Rachel Carson
#28. God forbid, one day you two might understand what it's like to lose everything. To have to face it again, afterward - that might be the worst part. Sometimes the past should stay in the past.
City of Savages
Lee Kelly
#29. If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority.
Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart
#30. I swear to fucking God, I won't save the next idiot to step past this protection because," I spat again, coughing, "that fucking tastes like shit. Understand me, people?
Scarlett Dawn
#31. For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with such things in their pasts.
Anna Funder
#32. We learn nothing of very much importance when it can be explained entirely in terms of past experience. If it were possible to understand all things in terms of what we know already, we could convey the sense of color to a blind man with nothing but sound, taste, touch, and smell.
Alan W. Watts
#33. Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.
Jean Webster
#34. I would guess that there are limits to what we can understand. But old people always think there are limits to what we can understand. It's the young people who push past those limits.
Leonard Susskind
#35. I experience true freedom when I accept, understand, and move on from the conditioning of the past.
Deepak Chopra
#36. Job 29 is about Job reflecting on his past before the calamity hit him to say this is the type of man I was. So, you want to know what God calls perfect and upright? Read Job 29, and you will understand what kind of man God esteems.
Eric Ludy
#37. What the advocates of our dangerous and deepening social amnesia don't understand is how deeply the past holds the future in its grip - even, and perhaps especially, when it remains unacknowledged.
Timothy B. Tyson
#38. If we do not try harder to remember the history of the other half of the European continent, the history of the other twentieth-century totalitarian regime, in the end it is we in the West who will not understand our past, we who will not know how our world came to be the way it is. And
Anne Applebaum
#39. The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves.
Herbert Butterfield
#40. The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the past so that you can understand it, and through it you come to a better understanding of your own time. If you're lucky, sometimes you can even extrapolate to possible futures." "I'm not
M.R. Carey
#41. From this moment forward, I will accept responsibility for my past. I understand that the beginning of wisdom is to accept the responsibility for my own problems and that by accepting responsibility for my past, I free myself to move into a bigger, brighter future of my own choosing.
Andy Andrews
#42. I'd been put into a box long before, after all. Each of us has. Are you the "difficult" child or the "histrionic" lover, the "argumentative" sibling or the "long-suffering" spouse? Boxes make us easier to understand, but they also imprison us because people don't see past them.
Martin Pistorius
#43. When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.
Chuck Palahniuk
#44. When you want to understand something you stand in front of it, alone, without help: all the past in the world is of no use.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#45. My dear, you never will understand time, will you? You're always trying to be the things you were, instead of the person you are tonight. Why do you save those ticket stubs and theater programs? They'll only hurt you later. Throw them away, my dear.
Ray Bradbury
#46. The present is swollen with self-regard for itself, but soon enough the present becomes the past. This present, this day, this very moment we inhabit--it all will be held accountable for the things it didn't know, didn't understand.
Laura Lippman
#47. if people do not understand you outrightly, do not worry; understand people outrightly and act with wisdom, courage and understanding
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#48. Those who are unwilling to confront the past will be unable to understand the present and unfit to face the future.
Bernard Lewis
#49. I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.
Chen Shui-bian
#50. You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can
Anne Rice
#51. A lot of my work with the financial and helping my workers involves taking them back to their past life and helping them to understand this past.
Doreen Virtue
#52. He who does not know the past can never understand the present, and he certainly can do nothing for the future.
John G. Diefenbaker
#53. More and more, I am beginning to understand why every one who has ever accomplished anything really great and truly beautiful in the past has come to Italy - have lived here and stayed here until some of its imprint has enriched their souls.
Marie Van Vorst
#54. But she was looking into the past, trying to understand when it was that all the laughter died.
Sidney Sheldon
#55. There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.
Cannonball Adderley
#56. Horror was written all over his face as he began to understand that that child of his wasn't stupid, or immune to what he had done in the past. It had greatly affected her.
Diyar Harraz
#57. Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.
Martin Yan
#58. [The past] has a way of hanging around, demanding we understand it and weave it into ourselves so that we can go on.
Margaret Coel
#59. People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.
Norman Mailer
#60. For the first time, I understand that, as much as one might desire change, one has to be willing to take a risk, to free-fall, to fail, and that you've got to let go of the past.
A.M. Homes
#61. Understand the nature and influence of repeating patterns, from childhood experiences or even from past lives. Wthout understanding, patterns tend to repeat, unnecessarily damaging the relationship.
Brian L. Weiss
#62. That's when I understand why I dance. For some people, it's the only way to make sense of the past, to get to the meaning behind the present. To find your true self.
Carol M. Tanzman
#64. I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.
Leo Tolstoy
#65. Yes, I have inherited the past because I have acknowledged it at last? And, now that I have come to understand it, I no longer need to look back.
Peter Ackroyd
#66. We've come to understand over the past hundred years that information is colored with subjectivity: What we know depends on how we interpret our information base.
William Badke
#67. Whatever happened to me just now has gotten to me, broken past the fragile shell I've built. More than my memory is gone. My soul has wings that beat to a heart I don't understand and I see things, feel things that I know aren't from here, but that are so real.
Elizabeth Scott
#68. The chip comes from silicon foundries who have been running their plants for the past fifty years, understand mass manufacture, and are the area that is most likely to understand the volume increase problem.
Mike Marsh
#69. It is not given to our weak intellects to understand the steps of Providence as they occur: we comprehend them only as we look back upon them in the far-distant past.
George B. McClellan
#70. The first stone represents the past - worries, bad memories, remorse. Understand?" "I do," I say. "The second stone stands for the present. The third pebble is a wish for the future.
Mary Pat Kelly
#71. Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness.
Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.
Rick Warren
#72. We will not allow the past to drag us down and stop us from moving ahead. We understand where we should move.
Vladimir Putin
#73. This is the part that Anden doesn't understand as well as I do, even if he knows Day's past on paper - he still doesn't know Day, hasn't traveled with him and witnessed the suffering he's gone through.
Marie Lu
#74. But recently I've, the past few years, I'm more focused on meditation. It's not a physical part. It's more mental part, to understand life.
Jet Li
#75. The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.
Edward Hallett Carr
#76. Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.
Jay-Z
#77. I understand that Italy could have been associated with the idea of an undisciplined country in the past.
Mario Monti
#78. Pause and remember - The past is over and it cannot be changed, fixed or undone by continuing to think about it. The quicker we can get over our mistakes, understand the lessons and move forward, the healthier we become to ourselves and everyone around us!
Jennifer Young
#79. I write about modern people who share a deep sense of connection to the mysteries of the past. I find that I understand myself and my world better when I'm able to peer into history as a mirror.
Ian Caldwell
#80. Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?
Emily Dickinson
#81. I had not understood then what I think I have now come to understand: that we can keep the past only by having the future, for they are forever tied together. Therefore
Robert Penn Warren
#82. These things ... they are who you are. They brought you here. To this day. You didn't give me a chance to understand that ever the unattractive parts of you, the messy parts, were something I could accept.
Laura Dave
#83. No one will ever understand like I do. You're so different with me, baby. You take care of me. You make me feel safe. You're not who you think you are. Didn't you once tell me that people aren't just one thing? You're so much more to me than anything you might have done in the past.
Samantha Young
#84. I grew into adulthood with the idea that, past a certain point, people can't understand, can't cope, can't fathom teaching consequence to someone operating beyond the pale. That's
Dean Fearce
#85. I've come to understand that there's a good deal of value in the ritual accompanying death. It's hard to say good- bye and almost impossible to accomplish this alone and ritual is the railing we hold to, all of us together, that keeps us upright and connected until the worst is past.
William Kent Krueger
#86. Perhaps some particles move backward in time; perhaps the future affects the past in some way we don't understand; or perhaps the universe is simply more aware than we are.
Philip Pullman
#88. I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.
Alice Dellal
#89. For the first time since I met her, I understand her need to keep her name secret and respect that. Here, someplace other than at home, we can be who we want, be with who we want, as long as it makes us happy. There's no past today, only this moment together, right now. - HEW
Michelle Warren
#90. In the past the French came to Germany less with the desire to understand it than with a zealous desire to interpret, to analyze it dispassionately something for which their training at the Ecole Normale Superieure or the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and the French language superbly equipped them to do.
Walter Abish
#91. No one has the right to lead other people like sheep. That's something even Lenin failed to understand. The purpose of a revolution is to free people. But Lenin just said: In the past you were led badly, I'm going to lead you well.
Vasily Grossman
#92. None of us can be in the present and the past at the same time. Not even when we
try to understand the things that happen to us. Close the door, change the record, clean the house. Stop being who you were, become who you are NOW.
Paulo Coelho
#93. Wrinkles of the future, cicatrices of the past, all the million marks recording a private life that no outsider could ever understand.
Michel Faber
#94. Well, it was one more nail in the coffin of the old Adam" or "God absolved me" or maybe something as simple as, "It's been good to understand the Gospel of John a little better over these past few months.
Michael S. Horton
#95. 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
#96. If we use the past only to creature heroes for present purposes, we will never understand the richness of human thought or the plurality of ways of knowing.
Stephen Jay Gould
#98. If we can ... get them to understand that saying 'no' to drugs is rebelling against their parents and the generations of the past, we'd make it an enormous success.
John Van De Kamp
#99. The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change ...
Malcolm Fraser
#100. I think the combatant is always burdened with returning and making his way through his past. And that we as citizens have a responsibility to those guys upon return. We have to make some kind of an attempt to understand what their life is like.
Anthony Swofford
