The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927Quotes
It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.
—Francis Bacon, 1620He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCEvery saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BC