"Only when we fully understand the past, can we begin to understand the future"? Could be somebody prophetic like Confucious, but at the same time it wouldn't surprise me if it was somebody like Mr Spock!
2006-10-06 00:33:53 · 13 answers · asked by filtee 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Study the past if you would define the future.
Confucius
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
(Law and Politics)
Learn from the past. Look to the future. Live in the present.
Steve Henthorn
(Happiness and Misery)
2006-10-09 19:22:16 · answer #1 · answered by mclarennorman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
George Santayana (16 December 1863 in Madrid, Spain – 26 September 1952 in Rome, Italy), was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. A lifelong Spanish citizen, he was raised and educated in the United States, invariably wrote in English and is considered an American man of letters. He is perhaps best known for his oft-quoted
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
from Reason in Common Sense, the first volume of his The Life of Reason.
OR
History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won.
~ William Hastie
I prefer the first...
2006-10-06 00:49:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't know, but it certainly wasn't George W and probably not Tony B., who in spite of a Public School education, apparently doesn't read books. Fettes? High fees but producing illiterates?
2006-10-07 00:01:02 · answer #3 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Einstein
2006-10-06 00:39:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Dalai Lama?
2006-10-06 00:40:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Michael J. Fox in "Back To The Future".
2006-10-06 00:38:54 · answer #6 · answered by Master_of_my_own_domain 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simpson, Homer J
2006-10-06 00:37:29 · answer #7 · answered by Troubled Joe(the ghost of) 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Here are some:
1.Chinese Proverb:
If you want to know your past - look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future - look into your present actions.
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2. “You have to know the past to understand the present.” --Carl Sagan.
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3.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
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2006-10-06 01:20:50 · answer #8 · answered by VelvetRose 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it was Rufus from Bill and Ted's excellent adventure
2006-10-06 00:43:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's one version. There are many variations.
2006-10-08 09:42:19 · answer #10 · answered by Donald W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋