Ellen Hopkins Quotes

Speculating on the future serves for nothing.

If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?

But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

What if we knew what tomorrow would bring? Would we fix it? Could we?

On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the present the lineaments of times to come.

There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

It's all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.

It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.

To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions

The question of how things will settle down is the only important question.

It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.

It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

The complicated futility of ignorance.

It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.

The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow.

The trick now is to turn insight into foresight. The trick is to know this about your tomorrow, today... Remember, your future is not coming to you; it's coming through you...change your idea about the changes to come, even as you change your idea about the changes that have passed. Then you can change your experience of both.

Usually, I'm pretty good about sorting through the options and then making decisions that I'm confident are the best decisions in that moment, given the information we have. But there are times where I think I wish I could have imagined a different level of insight.

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Today is today. But there are many tomorrows

This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.

You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be?

And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.