Future Quotes
Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo".
I never think of the future - It comes soon enough.Albert Einstein
He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.George Orwell
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.Albert Einstein
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.Euripides, Phrixus
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.Charles de Montesquieu
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The mind of man is capable of anything - - Because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.Joseph Conrad
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18, 000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1, 000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1 2 tons.Popular Mechanics, March 1949
Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - Act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Eleanor Roosevelt
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.Madame Chiang
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.E. B. White
To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.R. D. Laing
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.La Rochefoucauld
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.Frank Herbert
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.Ronald Reagan
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.Nicole Kidman
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will educate his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.Thomas Edison
The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career.Albert Einstein
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.Franklin D. Roosevelt
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.Thomas A. Edison
How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans.Woody Allen
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.Clive Staples Lewis
Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.Bourke Cockran
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.Dwight D Eisenhowe
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.Benjamin Disraeli
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past.Unknown
There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to - Day, flesh and blood tomorrow.Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.Richard Feynman
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.Percy Bysshe Shelley
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.Leonard Bernstein
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.Niels Boh
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
Only a fool walks backwards into the future.Terry Goodkind
