Civilization Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin

The future was and remains the quintessential American art form. Other nations sit back and let their futures happen; we construct ours. We can…

— David Gelernter

The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization.

— Jerome Frank

It is striking how our language reveals the visual nature of our thoughts about the future state of affairs. When we invent the future,…

— James M. Kouzes

“We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not…

— William Gibson

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

— Daniel Kahneman

“we are constantly predicting the future and hypothesizing what we will experience. This expectation influences what we actually perceive. Predicting the future is actually…

— Ray Kurzweil

We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately 'create the future of mankind'

— Friedrich August von Hayek

But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.

— Marcel Proust

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present

— Terry Brooks

The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind.

— Eckhart Tolle

What was given to us by the past is adapted to the possibilities of the future.

— Carl Jung