Lewis Mumford Quotes

Nobody knows the future.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.

To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.

It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.

Nothing ever happens till it happens.

No man can tell what the future may bring forth

The fates will lead you to the future or drag you there.

Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.

You never know what's going to happen in the future.

You never know what will happen tomorrow.

You can't change what time has in store for you, as the only constant that I've known is change.

O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happens in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario. World-changing marvels to us, are only wallpaper to our children.

I don't know what the future holds.

We can speculate. Last time I checked, the future doesn't take my advice.

The expansion is inevitable.

Things couldn't stay the same forever.

There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.

Wherever human beings are concerned, trend is not destiny.

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

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

I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.