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

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

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

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.

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

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.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

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

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

They say miracles are past.

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

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.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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

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

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

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

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 was adored once too.

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.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

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

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.

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.

To 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.

No man is rich enough to buy back his 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.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

What is past is prologue.

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

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

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.

I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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