Quotes About Future

Why should I care about posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?           attributed to GROUCHO MARX, but also credited to various eighteenth-century English figures

I also told the students that, for the sake of humanity's future, I hoped that they were all sterile.

Fools, as it has long been said, are indeed separated, soon or eventually, from their money. So, alas, are those who, responding to a general mood of optimism, are captured by a sense of their own financial acumen. Thus it has been for centuries; thus in the long future it will also be.

Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.

There isn't any question that we are conforming in every possible way to everything that's happening and everything that's going to happen.

For without some sense of the past the future can be only loneliness: amnesia is a solitary affliction.

We know the future only by the past we project into it.

The test of a good theory lies in its ability to explain the past, for only if it does can we trust what it may tell us about the future.

The one who is not dead still has a chance.

The purpose of school, Zimbardo notes, is to turn present-oriented little beasts into responsible future-oriented children.

We think people can spend 35–40 years working and saving, then stop working and go on for another 20–30–40 years at the same comfort level – but with a growing percentage of retirees and a shrinking number of workers paying into the system. I'm sorry, but that's magical thinking.

Yesterday ended last night.

dream is an inspiring picture of the future that energizes your mind, will, and emotions, empowering you to do everything you can to achieve it.

The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day.

If you get your education, then you've got your platform set up for you.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.

An education is a more surefire guarantee that you have possibilities opened to you.

I think this generation can play a very important role. If we act now, this could be the first generation to witness universal education.

Education is key. I graduated from high school; everyone needs to.

Get an education because no one can take that away from you.

Investing in girls' education is the very best thing we can do, not just for our daughters and granddaughters, but for their families, their communities, and their countries.