Edmund Burke Quotes

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

We cannot assume that past successes will insure future successes.

We live in a quickly changing world, therefore we must foretell developments, and reforms should respond to these changes

The things that worked for us in the past wasn't going to work the same way going forward.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

I believe it's less risky long-term to embrace change.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

This plan is subject to change without notice as all plans are.

Change is certain. Progress is not.

You cannot make a living on the past …the stone age did not end because they ran out of stones.

You cannot rely upon what you have been taught. All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.

We tell prospective hires, 'If you want an environment that is never going to change, don't come here. This is not the place for you.'

Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

I like change, and I like being in the middle of change.

The past guarantees you nothing in the future if the rules change.

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

I love change, I need it.