If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.
The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled.
It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
The past is what the past is.