Future Quotes
11558 Future quotes by 5746 unique authors
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I loved reading the Dalai Lama's words: My religion is loving-kindness. I realized that meant loving-kindness to everyone in my life: past, present, and future;…
— Elizabeth Kim
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[P]resent misfortune presupposes good luck in the future.
— Vincent de Paul
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For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering and…
— Elise M. Boulding
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The most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than feebly to point out the desire, the hope, or, at most, the probability, of…
— Edward Gibbon
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The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to…
— Beverley Nichols
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Because if the manifestations that happen in the present moment are beautiful and good, their continuation in the future will be also good and beautiful.
— Nhat Hanh
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There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call "death,"…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Today there remain but a few small areas on the world's map unmarked by explorers' trails. Human courage and endurance have conquered the Poles; the…
— Roy Chapman Andrews
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Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our…
— John F. Kennedy
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Cosmology does, I think, affect the way that we perceive humanity's role in nature. One thing we've learnt from astronomy is that the future lying…
— Martin Rees
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It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail…
— Herbert J. Muller
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The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.
— Geoffrey Elton
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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to…
— Larry Niven
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He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising maths problems and…
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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He found himself weeping. Not for the future or for the emperor. These were the tears of a man who saw before himself a masterpiece.…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Working-girls, in pairs and groups and swarms, loitered by these windows, choosing their future boudoirs from some resplendent display which included even a man's silk…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Faced with a new mutation in an organism, or a fundamental change in its living conditions, the biologist is frequently in no position whatever to…
— George Wald
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I just want to say one word to you-just one word ..."plastics!" ... There's a great future in plastics.
— Buck Henry
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I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay.
— Albert Einstein
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I think I know what is bothering the students. I think that what we are up against is a generation that is by no means…
— George Wald
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I work for perfection, for perfection's sake. I don't care what the external reasons are. And it's much more like a ballerina on opening night.…
— Story Musgrave
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Not enough of our society is trained how to understand and interpret quantitative information. This activity is a centerpiece of science literacy to which we…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and…
— Edward Teller
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The future is hidden even from those who make it.
— Anatole France
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Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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