Doing things Quote by Julian Baggini

The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does

— Maya Angelou

One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.

— William J. Clinton

You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.

— Benjamin Franklin

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

— William Shakespeare

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

— M. H. Abrams

When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

— Saint Augustine

We must prove our predictions about the future with action.

— George Jackson

Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience

— William James

To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions

— Douglass North

The future is not something to be predicted, it’s something to be achieved,

— Don Tapscott

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

— Anonymous

“most importantly, this prediction is less of a prophecy and more a way of discussing our present choices. If the discussion makes us choose…

— Yuval Noah Harari