Quotes about Future
You have been educated in judgment, which is the essence of worship. Judgment always occurs in the past. It is past-thinking. Will, free or otherwise, is concerned with the future. Thinking is the performance of the moment, out of which you use your judgment to modulate will. You are a convection center through which past prepares future. —Dwarf MacIntosh, Kelpmaster, from Conversations with the Avata
— Frank Herbert
Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.
— Frank Herbert
We are one life reaching out into a dark future.
— Frank Herbert
He knew this was among the alternatives today, a fact along lines of the future radiating from this position in time-space.
— Frank Herbert
Not addressing immediate needs is an offence to the young.
— Frank Herbert
The concept of progress act as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
— Frank Herbert
I know the trap of prescience. My father's life tells me what I need to know about it. No, grandmother: to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.
— Frank Herbert
Moneo is trapped. He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
— Frank Herbert
I know the trap of prescience. My father's life tells me what I need to know about it. No, grandmother: to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future. I require more freedom than that.
— Frank Herbert
IF.' 'If you had only . . . If we had but. . .' He wanted to shout them into silence. 'Only fools prefer the past!
— Frank Herbert
Awareness flowed into that timeless stratum where he could view time, sensing the available paths, the winds of the future…the winds of the past: the one-eyed vision of the past, the one-eyed vision of the present and the one-eyed vision of the future—all combined in a trinocular vision that permitted him to see time-become-space.
— Frank Herbert
We must listen across at least as many years into our future as those journals lay hidden in our past. We will not try to predict the discoveries yet to be made within those pages. We say only that they must be made. How can we turn our backs on our most important inheritance?
— Frank Herbert