An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Whether we live in Sri Lanka or Malaysia or India, the U.K. or the U.S., we face similar issues of understanding, remembering the past that has made us and seeing the future we want.
The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.
We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.
If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.
It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
The past has to inform the present.
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
We take it for granted sometimes that certain parts of our history are told, and we take it for granted that we know all that stuff, and we move forward along on that basis, but there are also massive gaps, and we have to try to address them.
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