As 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, 1859Quotes
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCI don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCEvery man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Destiny 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, 1899We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816