You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
Bob Dylan

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Oscar Wilde

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.
Jimi Hendrix

What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now.
Mike Ditka

I mean, when you've had a problem in your past, whether it's attributed directly to high cholesterol or not, you want to lower your cholesterol. You want to eat healthy. You want to feel healthy. You want to have a little more energy.
Mike Ditka

I'm not going to make it the all - everything. Our (the Saints) goal is to get better, make the playoffs and win the Super Bowl, but I'm not gonna anguish over it like I have in the past.
Mike Ditka

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
Jim Rohn

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Walt Whitman

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson

In this bright future you can't forget your past.
Bob Marley

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Donald Trump

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
George S. Patton

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
Les Brown

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.
Katharine Hepburn

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
Franklin D. Roosevelt