Captains Quote by Winston Churchill

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.

— Richard Russo

The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time.

— George Herbert

The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and…

— Boyd K. Packer

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 unknown. Prophecy contaminates it with the past, which is why liberated people do not bother with fortunetelling or astrology, and why…

— Alan Wilson Watts

And if such malignity is hidden for a time, it proceeds from the unknown reason that would not be known because the experience of…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so?

— Jean-Baptiste Say

The clemency of princes is very often only a state-trick,to gain upon the affections of their subjects.

— François La Rochefoucauld Duc De

“A single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells…

— Frank Herbert

The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.

— Michel de Montaigne