4,759 Quotes About Future
- Author Robert A. Heinlein
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A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
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- Author Agnes Mary Clerke
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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.
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- Author Carl Gustav Jung
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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.
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- Author Isaac Asimov
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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.
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- Author Mervyn Peake
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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.
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- Author Haruki Murakami
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This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: 'At the time, no one knew what was coming.
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- Author James Burke
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Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look.
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- Author Garrison Keillor
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The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.
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- Author Amitav Ghosh
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People think that knowing the future can help you prepare for what is to come - but often it only makes you powerless.
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