“The best of prophets of the future is the past”
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“The best of prophets of the future is the past”
“I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today”
“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future”
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.”
“History is a set of lies agreed upon”
“The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour”
“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us”
“A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for”
“Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction”
“Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream ”
“Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago”
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been”
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards ”
“The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.”
“You can never plan the future by the past”
“God cannot alter the past, though historians can ”
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
“It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution”
“Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn”
“Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them”