Future Quotes

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.[Qu’est l’histoire? Un écho du passé dans l’avenir. Un reflet de l’avenir sur le passé.]

The future knows what things we desire, unless there is something greater in our path that chases us away.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

There is no point in reliving the past. There is the future to think about.

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.

You don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about. Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.

You can read the whole future of mankind in the past.

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?

What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

What is the sense in recriminations about things over which the will of God itself is powerless? God can change the future, He cannot alter even an instant of the past.[À quoi bon récriminer sur des choses dans lesquelles la volonté de Dieu même est impuissante ? Dieu peut changer l’avenir ; il ne peut pas même modifier le passé.]