Future Quotes

Edmund burke - you can never plan the future by the past....
Albert camus - real generosity toward the future consists in...
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
Andr Gide
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
Arthur Wing Pinero
There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to - Day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
Confucius, Analects
Only lie about the future.
Johnny Carson
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Charles de Montesquieu
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
Benjamin Franklin
Sin bravely... We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.
Russell R. McIntyre
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
Daniel Webste
The future is the past returning through another gate.
Arnold Glasgow
There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as nutty methods. Or you can put well - Researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as a complete waste of time.
Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future
The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
Leonard I. Sweet
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.
Michael Cibenko
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - - In himself.
Erich Frohm
The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
Alfred North Whitehead, From the viewbook of Embry - Riddle Aeronautical University
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Jim Bishop
When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman
It is only by striving for beauty and love In all our relationships, That we can hope to become Guardians of our individual and collective futures.
Roland Stahle
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18, 000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1, 000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1. 5 tons.
Unknown
The mind of man is capable of anything - - Because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
Joseph Conrad
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
Alvin Toffle
Only a fool walks backwards into the future.
Terry Goodkind
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. Wells
Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future.
John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Alan Watts
When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.
John M. Richardson, Jr.
Conservation is humanity caring for the future.
Nancy Newhall
Study the past if you would define the future.
Confucius
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
Albert Einstein
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
Bertrand Russell
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.
La Bruyere
Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.
Pete Johnson
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.
Alfred North Whitehead