4,759 Quotes About Future

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge will, we are easily persuaded, appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us.

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

How merciful a thing is man's ignorance of his immediate future! What a ghastly, paralysing thing it would have been if all those present could have known what was about to happen within a matter of seconds! For nothing short of pre-knowledge could have stopped the occurrence, so suddenly it sprang upon them.

This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: 'At the time, no one knew what was coming.

Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look.

The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.

People think that knowing the future can help you prepare for what is to come - but often it only makes you powerless.