Louis Pasteur Quotes

People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.

I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world.

So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

It doesn't give me any satisfaction to think that my concerns will be validated by my grandchildren's generation. I would love to be wrong in everything. My grandchildren are my stake in the near future, and it's my great hope that they might one day say, 'Grandpa was part of a great movement that helped to turn things around.'

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.

We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.

We are tomorrow's past.

Posterity will give a man a fair hearing; his own times will not do so if he is attacking vested interests.

Each generation confronts new problems, encounters new facts, and tells our history somewhat differently.

Modern physics often advances only by sacrificing some of our traditional philosophical convictions

The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of man change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it.

Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that, in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that.

Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.

No people ever sees clearly those steps in its own progress, those events in its own life, which future generations will count glorious.

I am now playing for 100 years hence.

Americans look foward to their posterity rather than backward to their ancestors.

I think there is some kind of disillusionment in the West about the gains of modernity and of economic growth and it takes a form of skepticism about the gains of prosperity generally.

It is only by reflecting on the past that one can create a better future.

What I am interested in are the philosophies of the future. That's what drives me.

What I'm looking forward to is changing the course America is on.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

It is history that teaches us to hope.

Don't become a philosopher before you become rich.

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.