Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCQuotes
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, 1927Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.
—James Russell Lowell, 1884Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCThe world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955Destiny 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, 1899Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.
—George Moore, 1888God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967