We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

The habit of looking into the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

I am only a child yet I know if all money spent on war was spent on finding environmental answers, ending poverty, and binding treaties, what a wonderful place this Earth would be.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

Everyman's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with and the future is uncertain.