I am looking for a famous quote, about history and the future.?

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It is something along the lines of "you don't know where you are going til you know where you came from"

I am sure a famous person has said this and want to use it as a sub-heading in an essay!

Any ideas?!
 
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift

Eleanor Roosevelt

OR

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

George Washington

OR

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. -- Winston Churchill

OR

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napolean Bonapart
 
Bill Gates was once quoted as saying, "No one will ever need more than 4 mega bytes of RAM."
 
Bill Gates was once quoted as saying, "No one will ever need more than 4 mega bytes of RAM."
 
This is a variant of the quote attributed to George Santayana-"Those who are unaware of history are destined to repeat it."
 
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