Famous Quotes

"A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism."

Irving Babbitt 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 Irving Babbitt

• "To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it."

• "A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism."

• "Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself."

• "The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people."

• "Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful."