Famous Quotes

"Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet."

Huston Smith on Future

More quotes about Future

• "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."

  Winston Churchill on Future

• "Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."

  Oscar Wilde on Future

• "Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."

  Steve Jobs on Future

• "I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."

  Albert Einstein on Future

• "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."

  William Shakespeare on Future

More quotes by Huston Smith

• "The faith I was born into formed me."

• "I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith."

• "Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it."

• "Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them."

• "Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet."