Analogies Quote by G. M. Trevelyan

For many of us, we set out thinking there will be time in the future, and then suddenly we find ourselves at a moment…

— Claire Messud

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

— Abraham Lincoln

We humans can look deep into future and predict what will happen, but then turn around and do nothing about it.

— Daniel Gilbert

Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.

— Harry Browne

“But our relationship to these infinite pasts and futures isn’t random—plausibility throws its weight around, per some freaky quantum mechanics stuff that Dr. Oda…

— Neal Stephenson

We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.

— Craig D. Idso

The future never just happened. It was created.

— Anonymous

We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

— H. G. Wells

“I've seen the future all my life,' she says. 'It tends to work as a paradox, in my experience. You find out something is…

— Cynthia Hand

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

— Stephen Hawking

Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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

— Terry Brooks