Future Quotes - Page 25

• One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.

  Edward Teller

  Science, Uncertainty Principle, Principles

  Edward Teller, Wendy Teller, Wilson Talley (2013). “Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics”, p.235, Basic Books

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• Your time is too valuable, your destiny is too great, and your future is too bright to waste a single moment. Be a now person.

  Joel Osteen

  Single Mom, Destiny, Waste

  Twitter post from Jun 23, 2014

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• How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Strong, Flower, Perfect

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6265, Delphi Classics

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• Only those who overflow with love will build the happy and enlightened world of the future.

  Fethullah Gulen

  Love, Happiness, World

  M. Fethullah Gülen (2010). “Toward Global Civilization Love Tolerance”, p.122, Tughra Books

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• People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Morrow, Doubtful

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become ''Golems',' they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.

  Erich Fromm

  Past, Men, Boredom

  "The Sane Society". Book by Erich Fromm, p. 102, 1955.

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• What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.

  Sophocles

  Men, Waiting, Events

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.74, University of Chicago Press

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• Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.

  Epicurus

  May, Remember, Certain

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

  Andre Breton

  Humanity, Events, World

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• Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.

  Wendell Berry

  Obsession, Granted, Security

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.50, Counterpoint

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• The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Night, Enemy, May

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

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• Star Trek characters never go shopping.

  Douglas Coupland

  Stars, Character, Shopping

  Douglas Coupland (2010). “Player One”, p.231, Random House

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• No one can be certain where a nation which spans two continents, whose history begins in the faint traces of early civilization, a nation now struggling to find a new and valid philosophy of existence, will be propelled by the transcendental forces of the nuclear age.

  Harrison Salisbury

  Philosophy, Struggle, Civilization

  Harrison Evans Salisbury (1965). “Russia”, Scribner

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• Atlantis will rise again.

  Charles Olson

  Atlantis

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• I'm a lousy predictor of the future.

  Guy Kawasaki

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• I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

  Charles Kettering

  Running, People, Objects

  "Professional Amateur: The Biography of Charles Franklin Kettering". Book by Thomas Alvin Boyd, pp. 3-4, 1957.

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• It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Fiction, May, Way

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• Happiness or misfortune are prescribed by law of Heaven, but their source comes from ourselves.

  Nguyen Du

  Law, Heaven, Source

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• Tomorrow is our permanent address.

  e. e. cummings

  Addresses, Tomorrow, Permanent

  1 x 1 no. 39, l. 12 (1944)

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• The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.

  J. Arthur Thomson

  Children, Science, Past

  J. Arthur Thomson (2008). “The Outline of Science, First Volume”, p.185, Wildside Press LLC

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• We are vulnerable to fear only when we leave the present. If I drift into the past, my regrets surge up, my memories of failing and forsaking. If I shift into the future, I meet with doubt and delusion, fear of what's to come, what I'm not capable of controlling. It's in the present moment that I belong.

  Jan Phillips

  Memories, Regret, Fear

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• Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Age, Acquisition, Generations

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• I would rather die standing than live kneeling

  Charb

  Life, Attitude, Kneeling

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• "Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into a sticky ball. To some degree this was mindless worship of a miracle future, the pursuit of which has landed us in the fix we now inhabit.

  Bill McKibben

  Two, People, Miracle

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• ...our societies appear to be intent on immediate consumption rather than on investment for the future. We are piling up enormous debts and exploiting the natural environment in a manner which suggests that we have no real sense of any worthwhile future. Just as a society which believes in the future saves in the present in order to invest in the future, so a society without belief spends everything now and piles up debts for future generations to settle. "Spend now and someone else will pay later."

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Real, Believe, Order

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