Quotes about the past

It’s no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff, it just got exploited.

Tupac Shakur

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.

John F. Kennedy

If you believe that feeling bad will change a past event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Wayne Dyer

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

Oscar Wilde

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Immanuel Kant

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

David Hume

More than half of my life is past; I have left only the time I need for turning the rest of it to account and for effacing my errors by my virtues.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions.

Esther Hicks

Universal peace as a result of cumulative effort through centuries past might come into existence quickly – not unlike a crystal that suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared. Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.

Nikola Tesla

Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.

Peter Drucker