The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
Building sustainable cities – and a sustainable future – will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders – including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
I don’t think about my past or future.
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
People used to define me as a futurist designer, but, you know, the future is now for me.
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy. So, if they achieve human level intelligence or, quite possibly, greater than human levels of intelligence, this could be the seeds of hope for our future.
There is no formula that will guarantee success in forecasting, no magic words that will part the clouds. The real problem, as the old saw puts it, is that the future lies ahead.
I believe that agriculture land – productive agricultural land with water on site – will be valuable in the future.
I’m a fortune teller, but I don’t like to know my future.
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.
Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.
Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.
Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
As I’ve always said: The future lies ahead.
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation’s history and the world’s future.
If the ‘Post’ can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper’s future success.
A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be.
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
The future starts today, not tomorrow.
Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
I’m a huge ‘Back to the Future’ fan.
Knowing your HIV status is so important for your future health and that of your loved ones.
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.
When you’re poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.
Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.
I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Futurists don’t consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
