Future Is Unknown Quotes

#1. The past is perception. The future is unknown. The only truth is the present.

Melissa Heisler

#2. Since the future is unknown, nobody can really know where he is going! When asked, tell them you know not where you are going! You can only say where you wish to go!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Alan Rickman

#4. The future is unknown. Prophecy contaminates it with the past, which is why liberated people do not bother with fortunetelling or astrology, and why the happy traveler wanders and does not let himself be the slave of maps, guidebooks, and schedules, using them but not being used by them.

Alan W. Watts

#5. You cannot travel to the known; because all travels are towards the future and the future is unknown!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. I intend to live in the beauty of past memories for I know them the best. At this moment, the future is unknown so it will be an adventure for me.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Since the future is unknown, in every step forward we walk to the unknown!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. Sometimes it is more comfortable to live in the past. It is where you have already been, what you already know. It is because the future is unknown that it scares us. But the future is here, and you cannot stop it. Embrace it because one day this future will be the past you may want to revisit.

Matthew A. DeBettencourt

#9. As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

Norman Foster

#10. You're making something that won't be what it is until some unknown date in the future. All aspects of the personal disappear.

Will Oldham

#11. Not moving because things are unfamiliar-and you haven't bothered to learn how to operate on them-I think is really a crime. The uncertain is the unknown and the unknown is the future, and you cannot predict the future. But the unfamiliar? You can learn how to operate in that.

Orit Gadiesh

#12. The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

Simon Sinek

#13. Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain. Why can't you hear Muad'Dib? If certainty is knowing absolutely an absolute future, then that's only death disguised! Such a future becomes now!

Frank Herbert

#14. We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.

J. Michael Straczynski

#15. Thus is youth constituted; it quickly wipes its eye; it believes sorrow useless and does not accept it. Youth is the smile of the future before an unknown being which is itself. It is natural for it to be happy. IT seems as though it breathed hope.

Victor Hugo

#16. The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.

Plutarch

#17. A lot of people ask ... why a man is willing to risk ... Well, we've got to do it. We're going into an age of exploration that will be bigger than anything the world has ever seen ... If a man faces up to the (unknown) and takes the dare of the future, he can have some control over his destiny.

John Glenn

#18. Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

Sophocles

#19. To risk is to willingly place your life in the hand of an unseen God and an unknown future, then to watch him come through. He starts to get real when you live like that.

Jennie Allen

#20. Preparatory faith is formed by experiences in the past-by the known, which provides a basis for belief. But redemptive faith must often be exercised toward experiences in the future-the unknown, which provides an opportunity for the miraculous.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#21. Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.

E. Stanley Jones

#22. We may be able to predict when it shall rain but the exact second when the first rain drop shall hit the ground is always uncertain all.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#23. There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.

Richard Feynman

#24. If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.

Margaret Mead

#25. I am counting on nothing but the facts about me. So come on, Future. I've my back against the past. Anyway, as you see, it is too late to argue. I've crossed the Rubicon, and can return only when I have built a new bridge.

Mildred Aldrich

#26. Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#27. The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the pale of true literary civilization - which is now waiting to be taught the difference between a good book and a bad.

Wilkie Collins

#28. The future of my child is unknown but I have loved him, supported him, and taught him right from wrong. I will continue to do so ...

Brenda Lochinger

#29. Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation worse than what it was and a braver person stole the dream you gave up on.

Shannon L. Alder

#30. The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Victor Hugo

#31. Some are afraid of being a mess, feared by the unknown and are horrified by an unplanned future; than, there is some of us who thrive through discovery , excited by unknown territories and intrigued by a future of mystery. How you tell these people apart; one is a thinker, thy other a feeler.

Nikki Rowe

#32. Fallen flowers can't climb back.
If the root is strong, we can expect new flowers. Don't think too much about the 'lost' past.
Just love the present & live for the future.
From the tree, I learn, Make your roots strong. There will never be shortage of flowers

Unknown

#33. For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#34. But I know nothing; my future is a wide-open vista, leading to an unknown country - The Rest Of My Life.

Kate Atkinson

#35. Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.

Spider Robinson

#36. To line only for some unknown future is superficial.

Abdul Kalam

#37. Take time to laugh; it is the music of the soul.
Take time to be friendly; it is the road to happiness.
Take time to dream; it is what the future is made of..

Unknown

#38. Life is a journey toward the unknown future. Life is always a daring, great adventure. So go along with life, with courage, but without fear.

Debasish Mridha

#39. Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.

Rebecca Solnit

#40. An "EX" is called an "ex" because it's an EXample of what you shouldn't have again in the future.

Unknown

#41. Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film's future.

Rachel Miner

#42. The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.

Maria Montessori

#43. The future, for me, is romantic, I don't understand people who say the past is romantic. Romantic, for me, is something you don't know yet, something you can dream about, something unknown and mystical. That I find fascinating.

Raf Simons

#44. The next moment is unknown, even to God.

Marty Rubin

#45. A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Dennis Waitley

#46. Just having children is a risk, Kate. We are gambling on the future, investing in the unknown with nothing but hope and blind faith. How can we keep our own safe when anyone else is in danger?

Florence Engel Randall

#47. Life is an incredible adventure into the mysterious unknown future.

Debasish Mridha

#48. The forces are there, we cannot will them away. All we can do is learn to live with them. And we cannot learn this unless we are willing to tell the truth about ourselves, and the truth about us is always at variance with what we wish to be.

Unknown

#49. Future strong is adventurous self-mastery. Unlocking your future by running toward the unknown, with the wondrous soul of a child and the drive of a force that will not be stopped.

Bill Jensen

#50. To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be
over, but part of the stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Bertrand Russell

#51. The future is always unknown. Don't worry about the future. Appreciate the present and be hopeful for the future.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#52. Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me ... and still is.

Hedy Lamarr

#53. Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.

Bill Vaughan

#54. The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no edios, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.

Eric Voegelin

#55. When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life are rendered by the tripping of a camera's shutter, for at that point the future is still unknown and has yet to hurt us, and also for that brief moment, our poses are accepted as honest.

Douglas Coupland

#56. Future is an unknown country which requires tough visas for anyone to enter. Not all of us will get the chance to visit it.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#57. It's all for the best, I know it is. I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises. I know all this. But still ...

Elizabeth Gilbert

#58. You don't fear change. You fear the unknown. If you knew the future would be great, you'd welcome the change to get there. Well, the future IS great. Proceed.

Joe Vitale

#59. [H]istory is seen in a rear-view mirror while the future is the dark, foggy road ahead, filled with unknown trouble.

Alan Caruba

#60. Vision is perhaps our greatest strength ... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

Li Ka-shing

#61. More terrorists are given training and sanctuary in the United States than anywhere on earth. They include mass murderers, torturers, former and future tyrants and assorted international criminals. This is virtually unknown to the American public, thanks to the freest media on earth.

John Pilger

#62. Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.

Lord Dunsany

#63. These people had already seen what for everyone else is still unknown. I felt like I was recording the future. Svetlana

Svetlana Alexievich

#64. What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.... It is a wish that every cup may overflow with blessings and that every path may lead to peace.

Unknown

#65. When there is an influenza threat, drop everything and focus on risks from influenza pandemics. When SARS spreads, focus on unknown respiratory diseases. This approach helps to quell public concern, but it's a hugely inefficient way to deal with future risks.

Nathan Wolfe

#66. The future is always unknown.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#67. And so, it is always the case that the past is irreparably land-locked, and the future has yet to land. And here we are, living out our lives on the precariously thin line which separates the two.

Craig D. Lounsbrough