"The wise person must remember that while they are a descendant of the
past, they are also a parent of the future."
Herbert Spencer
"The future evolves in an orderly manner, out of the realities of the past,
filtered and shaped by the decisions of the present."
David Pearce Snyder
"We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past,
and we must respect the past, knowing that once it was all that was humanly
possible."
George Santanya
"Accommodation to change and the thoughtful pursuit of alternative
futures are keys to the survival of civilization."
Carl Sagan
"Most people think the future is the ends and the present is the means.
In fact, the present is the ends and the future the means."
Fritz Roethlisberger
"The future is uncertain ... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of
human creativity."
Ilya Prigogine
"Simply to be a human being is to be a futurist of sorts. For human
freedom is largely a matter of imaging alternative futures and then
choosing among them."
James Ogilvy
"The purpose of studying history is not to deride human action, not to
weep over it or to hate it, but to understand it -- and then to learn from
it as we contemplate our future."
Nelson Mandela
"Learning from the past and thinking about the future are something
that's in everyone's best interest."
John Lienhard
"The future is not a gift -- it is an achievement."
Sir Harry Lauder