The best prophet of the future is the past.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past.
We can't change what we've done, but we can always change what we're going to do.
I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.
Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of time.
It's incumbent on all of us to remember our history and not repeat our past sins.
I have seen quite a lot of things in life. I would not like to change anything. Because every moment of my life has taught me something.
We cannot change what happened anymore. The only thing we can do is to learn from the past and to realize what discrimination and persecution of innocent people means. I believe that it's everyone's responsibility to fight prejudice.
The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past
I'm the type that thinks if you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it.
We must not repeat the same mistakes, or commit the same cruelties that were done in the past.
Hold on to the ancient Way to master the present, and to learn the distant beginning.
The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated.
There's a lot of music at my fingertips that I can be influenced by. And just because I play a horn, I don't need to sound, or try to capture, what was happening before me. I can just respect it and learn from it.
Respect the past; you never know how it may affect you.
We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.
Remember the lessons of history - if we don't learn from history, we're bound to repeat it.
I think, there is a possibility - I would say it's more than that - that we will come to a view of foreign policy going forward that learns from the past but doesn't get captured by it.
Know your history. It can teach you who you are, where you have come from, and how to be a better person as a result.
Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
