A Quote by Confucius

Study the past if you want to define the future.

Confucius

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Confucius
Chinese - Philosopher
551 BC - 479 BC

Study the past if you would define the future. --CONFUCIUS

Steve Berry

In the information age, you can study all you want and discover the past in order to rediscover the future.

Cedric Bixler-Zavala

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

Milan Kundera

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.

Rachel Carson

The Past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us even in anticipation. The Past is, in many things, the foe of mankind; the Future is, in all things, our friend. In the Past is no hope; The Future is both hope and fruition. The Past is the text-book of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.

Herman Melville

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing out of the dim past into the uncertain future, is in reality a unified force, though composed of an infinite number and variety of separate lives.

Rachel Carson

History is really a study of the future, not the past.

Arundhati Roy

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Confucius

Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.

Val Kilmer

I love the mystery, the reconstruction of history, and the way past and future define each other.

Elizabeth Crook

The past doesn't define you, your present does. It's okay to create a vision of the future because it affects your behavior in the "now," but don't dwell on past mistakes. Learn from them and focus those lessons in the moment. That's where change can really happen.