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

History 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.

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.

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

What is past is prologue.

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

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

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

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

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

To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Those 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.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

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.

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

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

In 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.

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.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Research is creating new knowledge.

The 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?

I 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.

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

They say miracles are past.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

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.

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.

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

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

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.

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.

Each 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.

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

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

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

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

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

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.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

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.

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

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.