The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Alexander PopeMen who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.
Marilyn MonroeYou 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.
Pope FrancisI would love to study guitar or trumpet.
Amy WinehouseMy 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.
Paulo CoelhoWhat happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It’s not an intellectual thing. It’s almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.
Robert GreeneThe 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.
Henry KissingerLook back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Marcus AureliusThis is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Francis BaconThe free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
Dwight D. EisenhowerIf we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston ChurchillTo all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
Queen Elizabeth IIStudy the past, if you would divine the future.
ConfuciusA man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis BaconThe past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
Stephen HawkingMemories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
Corrie Ten BoomWe 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.
Bill GatesI bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.
John MuirWe are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard ShawWar should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
Niccolo MachiavelliIt is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.
Bill GatesSpend more time in study and prayer. That’s the secret of successful evangelism.
Billy GrahamWhat is past is prologue.
William ShakespeareWell, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
Bob DylanWho controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George OrwellThere’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.
George CarlinWhile I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Ronald ReaganHistory is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John F. KennedyThe only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar WildeWithout libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
Ray BradburyLiterature 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.
Oscar WildeThe philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?
Richard P. FeynmanOne’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Oscar WildeDon’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
Jackie ChanFor 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.
Winston ChurchillThe age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Charles DickensI have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
Dan QuayleEach has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia WoolfTo state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. KennedyI desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
George EliotHistorical 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.
Noam ChomskyI 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.
Alan WattsI don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.
Matthew McConaugheyResearch is creating new knowledge.
Neil ArmstrongPolitics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.
Winston ChurchillPeople will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund BurkeIf a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis BaconLiverpool 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.
Jurgen KloppThe past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Martin Luther King, Jr.It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.
Maya AngelouThe future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich NietzscheThose who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‚security,‘ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.
Pope FrancisThe artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
Brian EnoA revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Fidel CastroStudy men, not historians.
Harry S. TrumanNatural 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.
Francis BaconIn order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.
Leonardo da VinciTo study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
William JamesChance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.
Paul AusterEven in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.
George Lucas