Remembering Past Quotes

You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Any nation that forgets its past cannot have a future.

All of us benefit from remembering our past. A people which remembers does not repeat past errors; instead, it looks with confidence to the challenges of the present and the future.

Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

I also wanted remembering the past relevant to the present. Some people wanted me to put the names in alphabetical order. I wanted them in chronological order so that a veteran could find his time within the panel. It's like a thread of life.

I've always been steady on and off keeping diaries and journals. I try to document everything so I can remember it the older I get.

People say, 'Don't live in the past.' But I guess it depends on how interesting your past is.

In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.

I came in 11 years ago. I remember it like it was tomorrow

We must study history to learn its lessons, absorb its spirit of possibility, extract and emulate its models of excellence and possibility and honor the moral obligation to remember. We must measure ourselves in the mirror of the best of our history and constantly ask ourselves how can we use the past as a foundation to inform, expand and enrich our present and future.

One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.

There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce "that great past to a trouble of fools." For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory.

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

We must learn from the past, but we cannot dwell in the past.

Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.

[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.

Maybe time didn't heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.