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Quotes About Knowledge

But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future. —Charlie
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.
~ Robert E. Howard
I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
~ Elia Kazan
Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
~ John Dryden
The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
~ Seth Godin
Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.
~ Mitt Romney
I believe we should make use of what we know. We know that the future of the Earth must not be compromised.
~ George H. W. Bush
It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests.
~ Richard Dawkins
It's important to listen to what scientists have to say, even when it's inconvenient, especially when it's inconvenient
~ Barack Obama
Education is the way to move mountains, to build bridges, to change the world. Education is the path to the future. I believe that education is indeed freedom.
~ Oprah Winfrey
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.
~ Gregory Bateson
Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.
~ Carl Sagan
Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.
~ Laozi
Science is the future of mankind.
~ Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety.
~ Warren Buffett
Anyone who tells you they know the future is telling you the most grotesque lie, because none of us do.
~ Tim Waterstone
What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.
~ Sophocles
We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
~ G. M. Trevelyan
We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment.
~ Terence McKenna
O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.
~ John Milton
Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.
~ Kate Morton