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1. Education
Adams, Henry: "A teacher affects eternity;
no one can tell where his influence stops."
Bishop, Jim (1907-1987): "Books,
I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future."
Bormann, Martin (1900-1945): World
War II German political leader: "Education is a danger... At best an education which produces useful coolies
for us is admissible. Every educated person is a future enemy."
Bradbury, Ray (1920- ): "Without
libraries what have we? We have no past and no future."
Burke, Edmund (1729-1797): "The
grand instructor, time."
Carlyle, Thomas (1795 -1881): "In
books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material
substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream."
Epicetus: "Only the educated are
free."
Euripides: "Who so neglects learning
in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future."
Fitzgerald, Zelda (1900-1948): "By
the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long
since passed which determined the future."
Hoffer, Eric (1902-1983): "In
a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped
to live in a world that no longer exists."
Key, Ellen (1849-1926): "The educator
must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present. "
McAuliffe, Christa (1948-1986): "I
touch the future. I teach."
Russell, Bertrand (1872-1970): "
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.
The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control
the teaching of the young."
Santayana, George: "The wisest
mind has something yet to learn."
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816):
"We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people; our retrospection will be all to the future."
Toffler, Alvin (1928- ): "The
illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to
learn."
Twain, Mark (1835-1910): "I didn't
have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead."
Unknown: "Teachers change the
world one child at a time."
Unknown: "Teachers help us to
learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
Unknown: "Teachers shape futures
one child at a time."
Unknown: "Time is the best teacher;
Unfortunately it kills all its students!"
Whitehead, Alfred North: "It is
the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for
its duties."
Wilkins, Justin Rhodes: "In order
to survive we must learn from our pasts, simply deal with the present, and hope for the future."
2. Genealogy
Boom, Corrie Ten: (1892-1983): "Memories
are the key not to the past, but to the future."
Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682): Time,
which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments."
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861):
"Time's wheel runs back or stops: potter and clay endure."
Carrol, Lewis (1832-1898): " 'The
time has come,' the Walrus said, 'to talk of many things; of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages
- and kings - and why the sea is boiling hot - and whether pigs have wings.' "
Cobden, Richard (1804-1865): "I
believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical
works of Thucydides."
Disraeli, Benjamin (1804-1881): "Though
I sit down now, the time will come when you will hear me."
Milne, A. A. (1892-1983): "Memories
are the key not to the past, but to the future."
Ovid (43BCE-17): "Time the devourer
of everything."
Shakespeare, William, Richard II (1564-1616):
"O! Call back yesterday, bid time return."
Shakespeare, William, Othello (1564-1616):
"There are many events which in the womb of time will be delivered."
Shakespeare, William, a sonnet (1564-1616):
"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up a remembrance of things past, I sigh at the lack
of many a thing I sought."
Stark, Freya: "The past is just
the stuff with which to make more future."
3. History
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626): "Antiquities
are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time."
Beerbohm, Max (1872-1956): "To
give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine."thesame,
yet very similar."
Bonaparte, Napoleon: "History
is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."
Eliot, George (1819-1880): "I
desire no future that will break the ties with the past."
Heinlein, Robert (Lazarus Long): "A
generation which ignores history has no past and no future."
Lewis, C.S. (1898-1963): "If you
read history you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were just those who thought
most of the next."
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616), The
Rape of Lucrece: "Time's glory is to calm contending kings, to unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light."
Tennyson, Alfred Lord (1809-1892):
"I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time."
Thucydides: "I shall be content
if those shall pronounce my History useful who desire to give a view of events as they did really happen, and as
they are very likely, in accordance with human nature, to repeat themselves at some future time,--if not exactly
the same, yet very similar."
4. Humor
Berra, Yogi (1925- ): "It's tough
to make predictions, especially about the future."
Burns, George (1896-1996): " I
look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life."
Crum, Denny: "Most of our future
lies ahead."
Marx, Groucho (1895-1977): "Time
wounds all heels."
Popcorn, Faith (1947- ): "The
future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so."
Popular Mechanics, March 1949: "Where
a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may
have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons."
Quayle, J Danforth: "I have made
good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future."
Quayle, J Danforth: "The future
will be better tomorrow."
Quisenberry, Don: "The future
is much like the present, only longer."
Sladek, John: "The future, according
to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive."
The Oregonian: "Scientists see
quakes in L.A. future."
Twain, Mark (1835-1910): "The
art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future."
Valery, Paul: "The trouble with
our times is that the future is not what it used to be."
Wright, Steven (1955- ): "I was
a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side."
5. Inspiration
Ancient Roman Saying: "While there's
life, there's hope."
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626): "So
let great authors have their due, as time, which the author of authors, be not deprived of his due, which is further
and further to discover truth."
Barker, Joel A.: "The ultimate
function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it."
Beauvoir, Simone de (1908-1986): "Change
your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."
Benedict, Ruth (1887-1948): "Our
faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future."
Berger (1926- ): "Often art has
judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has
never been forgotten."
Bible, Ecclesiastes: "To every
thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a
time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break
down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time
to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to rend, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace."
Bovee, Christian Nestell (1820-1904):
"When all else is lost, the future still remains."
Collingwood, Admiral: "Now, gentlemen,
let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter."
Ford, John (1586-1639): "Why,
I hold fate clasp'd in my fist, and could command the course of time's eternal motion."
Half, Robert: "There's no such
thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do."
Half, Robert: "The secret of what
life's all about Was answered by the sages: Life's about one day at a time no matter what your age is."
Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti: "Our
awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of
goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings."
Herrick, Robert, To the Virgins, to
Make Much of Time (1591-1674): "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old time is still a-flying: and this same
flower that smiles to-day, to-morrow will be dying."
Homer, said by Hector in the Iliad:
"Let me at least not die without a truggle, inglorious, but having done some big thing first, for men to come
to know of."
King, Martin Luther, Jr.: "The
time is always right to do what is right."
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882):
"Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints
on the sands of time."
Manley, Mrs. (1663-1724): "No
time like the present."
Maslow, Abraham (1908-1970): "I
can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act."
Miller, Timothy Ray: "This is
the precious moment, but strangely, sadly, few people know it."
Rabindranath, Tagore: "The butterfly
counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
Roddenberry, Gene: "Time is the
fire in which we burn."
Roosevelt, Eleanor: "The future
belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Thoreau, Henry David: "Gather
ye rose-buds while ye may, old time is still a-flying. And this same flower that smiles today tomorrow will be
dying."
Twain, Mark (1835-1910): "The
secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming
tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."
Unknown: "All the flowers of all
the tomorrows are in the seeds of today."
Unknown: "The future belongs to
those who dare."
6. Philosophy
Acheson, Dean (1893-1971): "Always
remember that the future comes one day at a time."
Anonymous: "The sooner I fall
behind, the more time I have to catch up."
Anonymous: "The hurrier I go,
the behinder I get."
Anonymous: "Time is nature's way
of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once."
Asimov, Isaac: "No sensible decision
can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be."
Austen, Jane: "Why not seize the
pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation?"
Babson, Roger: "Let him who would
enjoy a good future waste none of his present."
Baldwin, James: "The future is
like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now."
Baruch, Bernard (1870-1965): "A
speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs."
Beauvoir, Simone de (1908-1986): "There
is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future."
Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914): "FUTURE,
n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured."
Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914): "PAST,
n. That part of eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. The past
is the future of yesterday, the future is the past of to-morrow. They are one -- the knowledge and the dream."
Bennett, Arnold: "We shall never
have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is."
Bishop, Jim: "It is difficult
to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far
away as one minute ago."
Boese, Paul: "Forgiveness does
not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."
Bradbury, Ray (1920- ): "I don't
try to describe the future. I try to prevent it."
Borges, Jorge Luis (1899-1986): "Every
writer "creates" his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify
the future."
Brody, Herb: "Telling the future
by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rear
view mirror."
Buchan, John (1875-1940): "We
can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves."
Bullock, Wynn: "If you stop searching,
you stop living, because then you're dwelling in the past. If you're not reaching forward to any growth or future,
you might as well be dead."
Burke, Edmund: "You can never
plan the future by the past."
Byron, Lord (1788-1824): "Time,
the avenger."
Carlin, George (1937- ): "There's
no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past."
Castro, Fidel (1927- ): "A revolution
is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."
Churchill, Winston: "The empires
of the future are the empires of the mind."
Clarke, Arthur C.: "Any sufficiently
advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Clarke, Arthur C.: "The only way
to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."
Cosby, Bill (1937- ): "The past
is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
D'Angelo, Anthony J.: "Run to
meet the future or it's going to run you down."
Darwin, Charles (1809-1882): "Believing
as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable
thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow
progress."
Drucker, Peter (1909- ): "Don't
try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!
Einstein, Albert (1879-1955): "I
never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
Einstein, Albert (1879-1955): "Now
he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in
physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) (referring
to America): "I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have
a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the
spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Those
who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882): "Immortality
will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882): "We
can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future; but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable
folds is today."
Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790): "Remember,
that time is money."
French Proverb: "Life is half
spent before one knows what it is."
Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939): "The
voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing."
Frohm, Erich: "As long as anyone
believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future,
he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers
at every point except where they can be found--in himself."
Galsworthy, John (1867-1933): "If
you do not think about the future, you cannot have one."
Gide, Andre: "The most decisive
actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often
than not, unconsidered."
Gleick, James: "Time is not a
thing we have lost. It is not a thing we ever had. It is what we live in. You can drift or you can swim, and it
will carry you along either way. "
Greene, Graham: "There is always
one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."
Henthorn, Steve: "Learn from the
past. Look to the future. Live in the present."
Holmes, Dustin: "If we lived the
future from looking just at our past we should all walk backwards."
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1908-1973): "Yesterday
is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."
Johnson, Samual: "An Italian philosopher
said that 'time was his estate;' an estate which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly
repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to
lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use."
Kai-Shek, Chiang (1886-1975): "We
live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past."
Kay, Alan: "The best way to predict
the future is to invent it."
Kettering, Charles (1876-1958): "My
interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
King John: "The spirit of time
shall teach me speed."
Lennen, John: "Time you enjoy
wasting, was not wasted."
MacDonald, George (1824-1905): "The
best preparation for the future, is the present well seen to, and the last duty done."
Malcolm X: "The future belongs
to those who prepare for it today."
Matthew 6: 34: "Do not worry about
tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."
Masson, Andre: "That which goes
contrary to the prevailing taste is, for me, the most precious of things. Whatever is scorned, despised or not
understood by the society in which one lives has prospects for the future."
McLuhan, Marshall: "The future
masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the
dumb."
Montaigne, Michael de, 1533-1592: "'Tis
one and the same nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of
things might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past."
Oliver, Gene : "My past is my
wisdom to use today. My future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides."
Orwell, George (1903-1950): "He
who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past."
Orwell, George (1903-1950): "Who
controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
Paki, Kimo: "You can't bring back
the past, and you're not promised the future, so enjoy life now."
Proverbs 29:18: "Where there is
no vision, the people perish."
Rochefoucauld, Francis, Duc de La :
"Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it."
Roosevelt, Eleanor: "The future
belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Rucker, Marvin: "The past is just
a reflection of things to come.
Schaar, John: "The future is not
a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first
in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating.
The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination."
Sher, Barbara: "Time is the only
wealth we're given.
Seuss, Dr. (1904-1991): "Today
was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one."
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616), The
Tempest: "What's past is prologue."
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616), Twelvth
Night : "Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges."
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815-1902):
"Thus far, women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the
customs of social life are all of masculine origin. The true woman is as yet a dream of the future."
Sueur, Meridel Le: "They never
die, who have the future in them.
Sweet, Leonard I.: "The future
is not something we enter. The future is something we create."
Taylor, Ida Scott: "One day at
a time- this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about
the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering."
Tesla, Nikola : "The present is
theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."
Thoreau, Henry David : "Time is
but the stream I go a-fishing in."
Thoreau, Henry David : "As if
you could kill time without injuring eternity."
Unknown: "Some people stay so
far in the past that the future is gone before they get there."
Unknown: "The greatest threats
towards future: Indifference, intolerance and ignorance."
Unknown: "Those who stare at the
past have their backs turned to the future."
Unknown: "To live for some future
goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top."
Valery, Paul (1871-1945): "The
trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be."
Watterson, Bill: "There's never
enough time to do all the nothing you want."
Watts, Alan: "I have realized
that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there
is."
Watts, Alan: "No valid plans for
the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."
Welty, Eudora: "The events in
our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order."
White, E. B.: "I would feel more
optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit nature and more time
tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
Whitehead, Alfred North: "The
only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It
is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future."
Will, George: "The future has
a way of arriving unannounced."
7. Poetry
Antoninus, Marcus Aurelium (121-180): "For
a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him Blake,
William (1757-1827): "Hear ye the voice of the Bard! Who present, past,
and future sees."
Blake, William (1757-1827): "To
see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity
in an hour. "
Brown, John (1715-1766): "Serves
but to brighten all our future days."
Burke, Edmund (1729-1797): "The
silent touches of time"
Drayton, Michael (1562-1631): "When
time shall turn those amber locks to grey, my verse again shall gild and make them gay."
Ford, John (1586-1639): "He hath
shook hands with time."
that which is not his?"
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1802-1882):
"With all the hopes of future years."
Moore, Thomas (1779-1852): "The
past, the future; two eternities."
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744): "A
theme of future song! The turns of all thy future fate display."
Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552?-1618): "Even
such is time, which takes in trust our youth, our joys, and all we have, and pays us but with age and dust; who
in the dark and silent grave, when we have wandered all our ways, shuts up the story of our days."
Wordsworth, William (1770-1850): "The
past unsighed for, and the future sure."
Yeats,W. B. (1865-1939): "Land
of heart's desire, where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, but joy is wisdom, time an endless song."
Yeats, W. B. (1865-1939), The Song
of Wandering Aengus: "And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples
of the sun."
8. Prophecy
Arabian Proverb: "He who foretells
the future lies, even if he tells the truth."
Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914): "PROPHECY,
n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery."
Bohr, Niels: "Prediction is very
difficult, especially about the future."
Byron, Lord (1788-1824): "The
best of prophets of the future is the past."
Chinese Proverb: "When men speak
of the future, the gods laugh."
Dressler, Fritz R. S.: "Predicting
the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard."
EMI-manager for Beatles, 1962: "Guitar-groups
have no future."
Henry, Patrick, (1736-1799): "I
have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of
the future but by the past."
Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527): "Wise
men say, and not without reason, that whoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past."
Montaigne (1533-1592): "'Tis one
and the same nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things
might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past."
Popular Mechanics, 1949: "Computers
in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
Unknown: "If you want to make
God laugh, tell him your future plans."
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