Mubarak Ali (1941) Historian, activist, scholar
In the Shadow of History, Chapter: Why should we study History? p. 4
History, What History Tells Us, In the Shadow of History
“I suspect that teaching the history of our subject is less frequent in our institutions than it was. We are getting short-sighted both in looking forward and in looking backward, to our detriment.”
Source: A Long Search for Information (2004), p. 29.
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“I'd rather look forward and dream, than look backward and regret.”
James Van Praagh (1958) American psychic
Source: Unfinished Business: What the Dead Can Teach Us About Life
Jomo Kenyatta (1893–1978) First prime minister and first president of Kenya
(1964) Post-election statement. Virginia Morell, Ancestral Passions: The leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings, Copyright 1995, Chapter 19, beginning.
“I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”
Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) English novelist and poet
15 January, 1849. As quoted in Elizabeth Gaskell The life of Charlotte Brontë (1870), p. 285
Cat Stevens (1948) British singer-songwriter
As quoted in "The Billboard Q and A: Yusuf Islam" by Nigel Williamson, in Billboard Magazine (17 November 2006) http://web.archive.org/20070817023056/www.billboard.com/bbcom/feature/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003409809 <br class="br">Context: The last place I wanted to return to was the music business. But it's the people and the cause that matter and right now there's an important need, which is bridge-building. I wanted to support the cause of humanity, because that's what I always sang about.<br>Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again. It's a big step for me but it's a natural step. I don't feel at all irked by the responsibility — I feel inspired.
Terry Eagleton (1943) British writer, academic and educator
Afterword, p. 190
1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)
“And nothing to look backward to with pride,
And nothing to look forward to with hope.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
"The Death of the Hired Man" (1914)
1910s
Variant: And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
“Sit not, like the figure on our silver coin, looking ever backward.”
Wendell Phillips (1811–1884) American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer
1880s, The Scholar in a Republic (1881)
Richard Leakey (1944) Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician
As quoted by Virginia Morell, Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings (2011)
“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.”
Edmund Burke book Reflections on the Revolution in France
Volume iii, p. 274
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)