"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
Winston Churchill
"One should never place confidence in the future --
it doesn't deserve it."
Paul Chamson
"We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to
ourselves."
John Buchanan
"Wisdom is the intelligence of the system as a whole."
Orlando A. Battista
"Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a
faint heart and with lame endeavour."
Isaac Barrow
"Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed
until it is faced."
James Baldwin
"If a person will begin with certainties, they shall end in doubts; but
if they be content to begin with doubts, they shall end in certainties."
Francis Bacon
"A wise person will make more opportunities than they find."
Francis Bacon
"Our sources of belief have become less trustworthy. ... and started
relying on surrogate sources of belief, most notably TV which is designed
to influence and manipulate."
Ed Ayres
"The present is where we get lost -- if we forget our past and have no
vision of the future."
Ayi Kwei Armah