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

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‚then‘ and ‚maybe,‘ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.

They say miracles are past.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what’s called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.

Spend more time in study and prayer. That’s the secret of successful evangelism.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

I was adored once too.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we’re going forward to tomorrow or whether we’re going to go past to the – to the back!

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don’t know his past; you just know what his plans are.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

Research is creating new knowledge.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what’s really happened.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.