Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.

I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

Predicting the future is very difficult. As a historian I have trouble trying to predict the past.

Nobody can see into the future. Nobody knows what going to go on.

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

I can't predict the future.

I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.

People have reflected on the quality of time ever since they've been writing. I suppose I have thought about and written about the question of living in the present - but it only lasts for an instant, and then everything becomes the past. The future, you know nothing about, except for some anticipations you have.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

I can't predict the future.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

The further backward we look, the further forward we are likely to see.

Predictions are hard, especially about the future.

One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.

It's difficult to talk about the future because you never know.

Nobody knows what will happen in the future.

I'm a historian. I really like the past. But most people seem far more interested in what you can tell them about the future.

Nobody knows the future.

We should keep in mind that it is easy to concoct stories explaining the past or to become confident about dubious scenarios of the future. We should view both explanations and prophecies with skepticism.

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

You can't know what the future holds, though you might conjecture on it, and if you're psychic, you might venture a guess.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.