“If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of a hundred years, teach the people.”
Confucius (approx. 551-479 BC)
“Only the dead have seen the end of war”
Plato (approx. 428-348 BC)
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you must, with the same weapons of reason that today arm you against the present.”
Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180)
“Never make predictions, especially about the future. A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
Jean de la Fontaine (1621-95)
“In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.”
Sir Henry Maine (1822-1888)
"The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future, we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find we have lost the future.”
Winston Churchill (1874-1955)
