"The past is always a rebuke to the present." -- Robert Penn Warren
"If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development." -- Aristotle
"Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results." -- Machiavelli
"History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up." -- Voltaire
"A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in the community wants to acquire a glorious past just as he acquires antique furniture. By that past he is reassured of his present importance; in it he finds strength to face the dangers that lie in front of him." -- Malcolm Cowley
"History, by appraising. ..[the students] of the past, will enable them to judge of the future." --Thomas Jefferson
"We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past." -- G. K. Chesterton
"Life must be lived forward, but it can only be understood backward." -- Søren Kierkegaard
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