Future Quotes - Page 23

What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.

Despite the immense distance between our own solar system (including the earth) and the nearest other solar systems, a journey from one system to another is theoretically possible, once an unlimited source of power is developed.

The future of nations cannot be frozen . . . cannot be foreseen. If we are going to accomplish anything in our time we must approach our problem in the knowledge that there is nothing rigid or immutable in human affairs. History is a story of growth, decay and change. If no provision, no allowance is made for change by peaceful means, it will come anyway - and with violence.

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.

We can't take a slipshod and easygoing attitude toward education in this country. And by "we" I don't mean "somebody else," but I mean me and I mean you. It is the future of our country-yours and mine-which is at stake.

We hope for the future, then we reach for the past.

I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.

Nobody can live in the past or the future without being something of a nut.

The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us.

I feel that I'm in on the ground floor of something that human beings will be concentrating on for the next 1,000 years-if we don't destroy ourselves in the meantime. It's possible that 50 years from now we're going to end up out of this solar system, batting around the universe, at least within our galaxy, investigating other stars and other systems.

Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.

I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.

No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond our power to resolve

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a stable place.

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil fuels is inconsistent with a healthy, prosperous future for our civilization.

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

Faith makes the uplook good, the outlook bright, the inlook favorable, and the future glorious.

The past does not equal the future.

The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind.

For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty