Quotes by Future The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future. Alfred North Whitehead futurewisdompast It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. Alfred North Whitehead meritfuturescience Take a look at my face, I am the future. Alice Cooper futurefaceslooks Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition. Alvin Toffler futuredestinyresponsibility The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order. Alvin Toffler change-managementfutureorder Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life. Alvin Toffler futurechangespiritual Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment. Alvin Toffler futuredatamen Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce futurehappinessfriendship CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him. Ambrose Bierce futuretimemen PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery. Ambrose Bierce futurepracticeart PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance... The Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one - the knowledge and the dream. Ambrose Bierce futuredreampast EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state. Ambrose Bierce futureraw-materialssarcastic To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense. Ambrose Bierce foundationfutureapology I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future. Amos Bronson Alcott forecastsfuturepast Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading: Was it done, is it being done, or is something to be done? Reports are now written in four tenses: past tense, present tense, future tense, and pretense. Watch for novel uses of CONGRAM (CONtractor GRAMmer), defined by the past imperfect, the present insufficient, and the future absolutely perfect. Amrom Harry Katz futurerealreading That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. Anatole France futurefearmen 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 futureeventshumanity The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered. Andre Gide futurelifemean The world will be saved by one or two people. Andre Gide futuretwopeople For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he cannot in any certain way attain to the true causes, he will adopt whatever suppositions enable the motions to be computed correctly from the principles of geometry for the future as well as for the past. Andreas Osiander futuresciencepast«1234567891011»
