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Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.
Learned Hand
History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
Miguel de Cervantes
If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion, peace.
Eckhart Tolle
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard
Like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
A. J. P. Taylor
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
Sydney J. Harris
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill
I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
John Maynard Keynes
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
Hippocrates
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
Marcus Aurelius
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
Bill Cosby
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
John Updike
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
Israel Zangwill
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
William Ellery Channing
The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
Herbert Spencer
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas Carlyle
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
Thomas Carlyle
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
George S. Patton
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
E. M. Forster
The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.
James Hutton
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou
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