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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

To 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.

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

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

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

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

Politics 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.

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

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

Study men, not historians.

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

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

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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

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 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.

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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

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

Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It’s a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

What is past is prologue.

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.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

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.

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.

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

Even 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.

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

What 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.

I was adored once too.

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

War 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.