Quotes About Wisdom

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for.

Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Find something to believe in, and find it for yourself. And when you do - pass it on to the future.

Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.

If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.

Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.

The complete teachings of all Buddhas - past, present, and future - are to be found within the essence of every human being.

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

The future has an ancient heart.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.

You have to make smart decisions, but you never know what will happen in the future.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.

The future projects light, the past only clouds

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.

The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive.

A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.