Logo
Quote by William Godwin
My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with wha

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image. – William Godwin

Other quotes by William Godwin

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius… he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. – William Godwin

Category:
Learning
Author
William Godwin
Read Quote

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind. – William Godwin

Category:
Government
Author
William Godwin
Read Quote

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness. – William Godwin

Category:
Imagination
Author
William Godwin
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Future
category

I have not made any plans for the future, and my wife would kill me if I announced anything before that. – Scott Walker

Category:
Future

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. – Isaac Asimov

Category:
Future

Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future. – Mitt Romney

Category:
Future

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was. – Leopold Von Ranke

Category:
Future

Random Quotes

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck. – Aleister Crowley

Category:
Universe, The

Im thankful for weird people out there cause theyre some of the most creative people. – Channing Tatum

Category:
thankful

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God. – Guru Nanak

Category:
God

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy. – Daniel Webster

Category:
power