"You cannot plan the future by the past."

Future, Planning, Reflection, Life

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"You cannot plan the future by the past."

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"To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are not within your midst who dream about tomorrow - with the capacity to bring tomorrow into the present - then the country might as well just recede back into the cave because that's where we're headed."

Neil deGrasse Tyson, American Author

Future, Innovation, Creativity, Science

"Study the past, if you would divine the future."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Future, Past, Study

"We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

Future, Past, Respect, Will

"We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

Future, Present

"Well, maybe I just want to know the future so I can prepare myself for what's coming. If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise, said the seer. If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Future, Preparation, Surprise, Suffering

"Books'll be back, Esther-in-Unalaq predicts. "Wait till the power grids start failing in the 2030s and the datavats get erased. It's not far away. The future looks a lot like the past."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Future, Technology, Prediction, Power

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Future, Past, Responsibility

"Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Future, Dawn, Open, Will

"You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent."

Gordon B. Hinckley, American Clergyman

Future, Excellence, Youth, Responsibility

"Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Future, Choice, Control, Now

Explore more quotes by Edmund Burke

"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."

Judgment, Opinion

"Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government."

Government, Nothing

"To innovate is not to reform."

Society, Reform

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

Mistake, Nothing

"He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls."

Cause, Fame, Instinct, Passion

"The cold neutrality of an impartial judge."

Law, Justice, Neutrality, Truth, Observation

"Falsehood is a perennial spring."

Society, Falsehood, Spring

"The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle, in all parts of the empire; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace, sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit of peace, and laid in principles purely pacific."

Philosophy, Peace, Conflict, Simplicity, Ethics

"You cannot plan the future by the past."

Future, Planning, Reflection, Life

"I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it."

Wonder, Delight, Observation, Curiosity