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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, 1927

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

—Albert Camus, 1951

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873

My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

—Charles F. Kettering, 1946

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BC

Destiny 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, 1899

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

—Ray Bradbury, 1992

It 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, 1620

The world began without man, and it will end without him.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955

Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

—Thomas Jefferson, 1816

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.

—Arthur Koestler, 1967

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

—Walt Whitman, 1856