“Who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?”
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Afterword (1984)
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“Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.”
Variant: Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
Source: Choke

“Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.”
As quoted "Literary witness to century of turmoil" in China Daily (24 November 2003)