“We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Source: Tomorrow Is Now (1963), p. xv
Context: We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future. Spinoza, I think, pointed out that we ourselves can make experience valuable when, by imagination and reason, we turn it into foresight.

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American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady… 1884–1962

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“It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.”

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Source: The Worldly Philosophers (1953), Chapter XI, Beyond the Economic Revolution, p. 317

“What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

Source: Tomorrow Is Now (1963), p. 134

“What we have today is most precious. The past is already gone and the future is yet to come. Therefore, we must seize the present moment, leave the past behind, and look forward to the future. Only then will our hearts be like the ocean – vast and boundless.”

Jun Hong Lu (1959) Australian Buddhist leader

Words of Wisdom from Buddhist Master Jun Hong Lu, Volume 1 (2016) ISBN 978-0-6482300-1-4

“To take a stand for the future is to bring forth a new opportunity, not one derived from the past, but an opportunity created from a future to which we give ourselves.”

Werner Erhard (1935) Critical Thinker and Author

Source: Interview with USA Today, "Mankind Must Find a New Self Awareness", Dan Neuharth and Miles White, December 14, 1982

“We are proud of our past and our present and we face the future with unflagging determination.”

Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum (1949) Emirati politician

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“I would like to make the point that we cannot undo the past but we can learn from it, and we cannot predict the future but we can shape and build it.”

Epeli Ganilau (1951) Fijian politician

Excerpts from a speech to the Fiji Institute of Accountants, 28 April 2005

“We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward cross the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Speech at Zurich University (September 19, 1946) ( partial text http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/astonish.html) ( http://www.peshawar.ch/varia/winston.htm).
Post-war years (1945–1955)

“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.”

George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism

“We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.”

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