Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

It's important to learn the right lessons from the past.

We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history.

There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past.

Learn from the past and share your experiences with others.

The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

The past is what we have to learn about how to direct America to the future.

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not to limit you, you shouldn't be limited by it.

Everyone must learn from the past.

I think it is vitally important to study History. If we are going to lead Britain safely into the future, it is essential that we understand our country's historical roots. If we can learn the lessons of the past, we will be able to avoid making mistakes in the future.

It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of historical experience, as of personal experience, are contingent. They teach the consequences of certain actions, but they cannot force a recognition of comparable situations.

it’s only by studying the mistakes of the past,” Lucien said mildly, “that we can even have a future

That's the good part of having my past follow me, is that sometimes some of that stuff can help.

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

For me, I always study the last games that have been played, not what happened in the past.

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.

We could learn a lot from the ancients, and we should go back there.