“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.”
Phrixus, Frag. 927
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ancient Athenian playwright -480–-406 BCRelated quotes
“To quarrel over the past is to lose the future.”
Newton N. Minow (1926) United States attorney and former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
Speech to the National Association of Broadcasters, May 9, 1961 (the Wasteland Speech)
“Whoso obedience from his subjects seeks,
'Tis fitting that he first should learn to rule.”
Matteo Maria Boiardo (1441–1494) Italian writer
Chi vuole aver soggetti, che obbediscano,
Convien, che prima sappia comandare.
Act II, scene i
Timone (c. 1487)
“Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.”
Italo Calvino book Invisible Cities
Source: Invisible Cities
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
The Morals of Confucius http://books.google.pt/books?id=izgCAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=pt-PT, 2nd edition (London, 1724), Maxim X, p. 114. <br class="br">Attributed
“He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.”
Francisco de Quevedo (1584–1645) Spanish writer
“The past has lost, as it always loses; the future has won, as it always wins.”
Lin Carter (1930–1988) American fantasy writer, editor, critic
Source: Time War (1974), Chapter 15, “The Crisis Point” (p. 155)
