Quotes About Wisdom

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.

Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.

In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.

Never make forecasts, especially about future.

The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through.

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.

What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.

Examine the present and learn from the past to see how the future will unfold. Too often we just look at the present and base our actions solely on that.

I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.

Past and future are two aspects of the same coin. The name of the coin is mind.

The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

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.

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?

It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.

It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.

O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.

The future belongs to the educated.

In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.

At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.

If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow and which will not speak then to me.

While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.