Future Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The past can hurt, but if learnt, the future might be better than the present.

— Daniyal Butt

Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“to know the future we must learn the past...knowing the past we act on the present for a better future....”

— Eda

Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future.

— Jacob Burckhardt

Consider the past and you shall know the future.

— Chinese Proverbs

Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one…

— Confucius

We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.

— Claude Shannon

The past can never be better than the future, because God is already there...

— Anonymous

God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

— Ambrose Bierce

Study the past if you would define the future. --CONFUCIUS

— Steve Berry

“Learn from the past but use the present to create the future.”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

— Niccolo Machiavelli