The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927Quotes
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCDestiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
—William Jennings Bryan, 1899I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.
—Francis Bacon, 1620The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856