My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946Quotes
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCFate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCOften the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCI’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BC