God will not suffer man to have knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity he would be careless; and understanding of his adversity he would be senseless.
America has never forgotten and will never forget the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path the path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago…. How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom the clothing of the grave that some people believe she is already fitted for.
If you stop searching you stop living because then youre dwelling in the past. If youre not reaching forward to any growth or future you might as well be dead.
We need not be afraid of the future for the future will be in our own hands. We shall need courage energy and determination but above all we shall need faithfaith in ourselves in our communities and in our country.
The greatest gift … is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at the future; and it is appalling to contemplate the great number of often painful steps by which one arrives at a truth so old so obvious and so frequently expressed. It is good for one to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers little or much life is nowthis daythis hour.
GQuon wrote there is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities. It is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.’08-02-2010
(In 1903) The most important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplemented in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
If you have to forecast forecast often.
We are always doing says he something for Posterity but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.?
When all else is lost the future still remains.
You can never plan the future by the past.
The empires of the future are empires of the mind.
You can only predict things after theyve happened.
Yesterday is not ours to recover but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
The future is purchased by the present.
There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might not see.
Trust no future howeer pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act act in the living present! Heart within and God oerhead!
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
And what rough beast its hour come round at last Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
God will not suffer man to have knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity he would be careless; and understanding of his adversity he would be senseless.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it if you have to with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
The future is like heaven everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye to restore it and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
America has never forgotten and will never forget the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path the path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago…. How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom the clothing of the grave that some people believe she is already fitted for.
FUTURE n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
It is difficult to live in the present ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
I don?t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rear view mirror.
One faces the future with one?s past.
If you stop searching you stop living because then youre dwelling in the past. If youre not reaching forward to any growth or future you might as well be dead.
I look to the future because thats where Im going to spend the rest of my life.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
We need not be afraid of the future for the future will be in our own hands. We shall need courage energy and determination but above all we shall need faithfaith in ourselves in our communities and in our country.
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
The distinction between past present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
The greatest gift … is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at the future; and it is appalling to contemplate the great number of often painful steps by which one arrives at a truth so old so obvious and so frequently expressed. It is good for one to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers little or much life is nowthis daythis hour.
If you do not think about the future you cannot have one.
GQuon wrote there is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities. It is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.’08-02-2010
The trouble with the future is that it usually arrives when you least expect it.
Just rememberwhen you think all is lost the future remains.
Never make forecasts especially about the future.
It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
Descartes commanded the future from his study more than Napoleon from the throne.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Our task now is not to fix the blame for the past but fix the course for the future.
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
(In 1903) The most important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplemented in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote.