A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.
Future Quotes
John F. Kennedy leads, then Buckminster Fuller, Eckhart Tolle, Shakespeare and Nikola Tesla. Two of Churchill’s lines in The Second World War are here: if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future, and the empires of the future are the empires of the mind. Fuller, in Critical Path (1981), warns that all of humanity is in peril of extinction unless each of us dares to tell only the truth.
“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future” is credited to Niels Bohr and disputed. The notes also name the Danish poet Piet Hein and the cartoonist Storm P., and they cite an investigation that found its earliest version in 1948. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams” is credited to Eleanor Roosevelt and is also disputed.
If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!
It is the future that creates his present.
All is an interminable chain of longing.
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.
The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.
The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.
The future, it seemed, was turning out to be one damn thing after another.