Future Quotes

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

Kofi Annan

Those who foretell the future lies, even if he tells the truth.

Arabic Proverb

When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.

Elizabeth Taylor

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Abraham Lincoln

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.

Kevin Kelly

I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.

George Eliot

To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

Daisaku Ikeda

While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.

Herbie Hancock

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Paul Valery

If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive.

Susan Rice

In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.

Kenichi Fukui

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

George Santayana

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

Thomas Mann

The young sailor at sea was ordered to climb a mast to adjust a sail during a violent storm. He got halfway up, looked down, got dizzy and sick. An old sailor on deck shouted up to him Look up, son, look up. Young sailor looked up, regained his composure, and completed his mission. Moral: Look ahead, not back.

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We have inherited the past; we can create the future.

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Imagine a baseball thrown thru the air. A high speed camera takes pictures of it showing very great detail -- names, laces, etc. Someone shows you a picture -- can you tell what direction it is travelling? or even if it is moving? NO. You would have to know where it was thrown FROM to know what direction it is going. In times of high change, it's good to know a little bit about the PAST to understand the present freeze frame of the NOW and project to some degree of accuracy where we are GOING (The Future).

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We all need to take great interest in the future because we will spend the rest of our life there.

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Whatever your past has been your future is spotless.

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The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.

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People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

Milan Kundera