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A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past. -- Daisaku Ikeda
The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is simply to release any images and emotions. -- Jack Kornfield
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation. -- Lord Acton
An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future. -- Annie Besant
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce. -- Virginia Gildersleeve
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future. -- Lord Acton
The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is simply to release any images and emotions. -- Jack Kornfield
With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present. -- Kenneth M. Stampp
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation. -- Lord Acton
It's possible to satisfy the needs of the inner life by an intimate communion with nature, or by knowledge of the past. -- Adolf Hitler
The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future. -- C. S. Lewis
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future. -- Margaret Mead
It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is unobstructive: without the latter it is deceptive. -- Richard Whately
The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present. -- Lauren Kate
History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history--while it would not absolutely prove the government was lying in a given instance--might make you skeptical, lead you to ask questions, make it more likely that you would find out the truth. -- Howard Zinn
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. -- Marcus Garvey
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. -- Stephen Ambrose
Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative. -- Paul Arden
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. -- Charles Lindbergh
The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly. -- Jean Piaget
People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do. -- Gretchen Rubin
Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand. -- Aly Khan
I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American. -- Judy Holliday
Since the Renaissance, a concept called 'progress' has been baked into our society. Progress - founded on an accumulation of knowledge through experience (and in the case of science, through experiment). To build on the past rather than endlessly relive it. That's what separates us from the beasts. -- Seth Shostak
To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature. -- Frederick Soddy
The place where I think social media fails is in showing the knowledge, the tradition of stitching the clothing, of cutting the fabric, of the tannery, of the skinning of the jewels - this knowledge needs respect. Online and social media is the future, but we need to learn from the past, too. -- Giuseppe Zanotti
For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that. -- Jacqueline Emerson
It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker. -- Kevin Mitnick
When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In the ancient world, most of the knowledge was destroyed. Every emperor of China who came in wiped out everything that came before them, to the point that the country completely forgot its past. -- Steve Berry
Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future. -- W. Timothy Garvey
The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it. -- Mason Cooley
There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past. -- John Diefenbaker
Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities. -- Buzz Aldrin
The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge. -- Pat Barker
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future. -- Vernon Cooper
All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know. -- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
This generation lacks true knowledge of how the past has trapped you with psychological lassos over Adam's apples. -- Reks
The past has too much knowledge embedded in it, and therefore it's best to forget it and start anew. -- Tariq Ali
The ability to withstand the flinch comes with the knowledge that the future will be better than the past. -- Julien Smith
Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast. -- P. D. James
His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation. -- Augustine of Hippo
His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation. -- Saint Augustine
Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past. -- Esther Meynell
...knowing about your past lives is worse than useless if that knowledge doesn't bring you some kind of positive change or healing." -- Lianne Downey
There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past. -- John Robinson
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. -- Stephen Ambrose
Every one who has labored honestly in the past has aided to place knowledge and comfort within the reach of a constantly increasing number. -- Orison Swett Marden
It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future. -- Robert Heilbroner
Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings. -- Daniel Schacter
I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions. -- Benjamin Carson
When we walk with knowledge in our present and wisdom from our past we are able to discern how to prepare for tomorrow". HS/el -- Evinda Lepins
You remember, you are drawn back to the pathway to enlightenment, to meditation, and when you begin to meditate your past life knowledge returns to you. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music. -- Giuseppe Verdi
One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future. -- Bill Crawford
If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way. -- Terry Eagleton
With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past. -- Aaron Swartz
I am driven to keep going for Christ by the filling of the Holy Spirit and the knowledge that the harvest is not forever. It will soon be past. -- Bill Bright
It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future. -- John Quincy Adams

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