Quotes About Perception

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

Reality includes both the past and the future, but existence includes only the present and is totally dependent on the reality of past and future universes. Without them there is no existence now.

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.

The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.

If the future and the past really exist, where are they?

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

Prestige and premium will also play an important role in the future. But some people define these values differently today.

"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.

...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

There are bits of the literal future right here, right now, if you know how to look for them.

POZZO: I am blind. (Silence.) ESTRAGON: Perhaps he can see into the future.

All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future.

Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.

There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past.

The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind.

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

It's so easy to be mistaken about the future. Sometimes there are avant-gardes which believe themselves to be the avant-garde and which later find themselves to be absolutely dated.

I've heard that I'm 'the future of tennis.' But that's all just random stuff.

Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.