Future Quotes

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

Frank Herbert

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

The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time.

Dean Acheson, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Jim Bishop, New York Journal - American, March 14, 1959

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

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

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Wayne W Dye

The most decisive actions of our life - - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - - Are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Andre Gide

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

Leonard I. Sweet

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 than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

Bertrand Russell

We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Henry Kissinge

When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed.

I Ching

A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.

Henry M. Wriston

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

Lydia Sigourney

The future is no place to place your better days.

Dave Matthews, "Cry Freedom".

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.

H. G. Wells

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Alvin Toffle

I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.

Patrick Henry

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

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Miles Davis

Only lie about the future.

Johnny Carson

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses.

Katherine Mansfield

Most of our future lies ahead.

Denny Crum, Louisville basketball coach

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

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Plutarch

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long

Everyone should free their mind and soul. Some are ready to free them now, and some will be ready to free them in the future. Some will never be ready and that is what makes their lives not worth living.

Emad Hasan

Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - Your destiny - Are here and now.

Dag Hammarskjold, newpaper quote of the day

The future depends on what we do in the present.

Mahatma Gandhi

We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.

Madame Chiang

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

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....

Ursala Lequin

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

John Galsworthy

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.

Ralph Abraham

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

George Bernard Shaw

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10, 000 men to guard the past.

Maurice Masterlinck