“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”What do you mean to say by advising “look to the future”?
— George Santayana
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
— Party slogan, 1984
The Bible teaches to look to the future. The Old Testament looks for the Messiah. The New Testament tells us to look to the future.
At a more specfic level, Israelites fleeing Egypt made a mistake when they looked back to Egypt. Lot’s wife made a mistake when she looked back to the party life she used to live in sin city.