Herman Melville Quotes

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

Teachers, you are the shapers of thought and the molders of sentiment, not of this age and of this generation alone, but of ages and generations to come.

Members of the rising new generation! The future is yours. The republic has been founded by us. It is up to you to guard and exalt it.

I hold that man in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world.

"Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow."

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves.

For the future. For the unborn.

Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying train of Life, fly backward far and fast The milestones of the fathers, the landmarks of the past. But human hearts remain unchanged: the sorrow and the sin, The loves and hopes and fears of old, are to our own akin; And if, in tales our fathers told, the songs our mothers sung, Tradition wears a snowy beard, Romance is always young.

We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.