Foresight Quotes
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The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.
— Clive James
Where is the good of planning upon an "if?" To trust is to get ready, uncle says. Trust is better than foresight.
— George MacDonald
In respect to foresight and firmness, the people are more prudent, more stable, and have better judgement than princes.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight ...
— Henry Taylor
You know what happens to me!
— Satoshi Kon
Vengeance is without foresight.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Every invention began as an imagination.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.
— Robert B. Parker
I still have a lot of those depressive thoughts, but now I have the foresight to tell myself, 'Don't think like that,' and things seem better.
— Juliana Hatfield
The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
— Will Durant
Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.
— Stephen Crane
Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.
— Roger L'Estrange
It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.
— James Madison
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.
— Karl Schroeder
I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.
— Morrissey
The mind can never foresee its own advance
— Friedrich A. Hayek
This antitrust thing will blow over.
— Bill Gates
Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Always plan no matter how improbable it seems. The bill for hindsight is much more expensive than the reciept for foresight.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
God punishes sins, but the world I see only punishes lack of foresight and blunders.
— Emilia Pardo Bazan
Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.
— Kevin Kline
A young man who doesn't have the foresight to seek out the girl he wants to be with and actively pursue her, doesn't deserve her.
— Colleen Houck
Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.
— Alain De Botton
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
If you blindly believe, you can see from your eyes more than you do. That sight itself gives you the foresight to envision your future
— Keerthi Singhe
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight ... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
— John Stuart Mill
Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.
— Karen Blixen
A man with no memory was a man with no foresight - to
— Eleanor Catton
I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations.
— Adam Driver
If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
— Xun Zi
Childhood is never troubled with foresight.
— Fanny Burney
Foster foresight to promote right
— Elda M. Lopez
Vengeance has no foresight.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
History is the insight to foresight
— Dr Lloyd Magangeni
Launching a brand is not for those with thin skin. It takes courage, intelligence and foresight.
— David Brier
I have not the foresight to predict everything, Rogue.
— Elizabeth Carlton
Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!
— William Blake
So finding meaning in events is positively correlated with wellbeing but negatively correlated with foresight.
— Philip E. Tetlock
She knew that the word providence meant foresight, the future beheld before it was experienced.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
— Edmund Burke
The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time ... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
— William S. Burroughs
Formative commendation to the author as an altar boy: "You're the only one we've got to anticipates what's coming.
— John Kasich
The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.
— Nikola Tesla
The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
One of the characteristic problems of our time is how to close this gap between capabilities and foresight.
— Edward Tenner
No one knows the future, but the present offers clues and hints on its direction.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
To fulfill your vision, you must have hindsight, insight and foresight.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Fear is the mother of foresight.
— Thomas Hardy
He who has foresight has more than two eyes.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep.
— Confucius
Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.
— John Ortberg
Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.
— Chester W. Nimitz
There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.
— Walter Isaacson
A Leader must possess credibility, imagination, enthusiasm, vision, foresight, a sense of timing, a passion for excellence and be willing to share.
— William Rosenberg
If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.
— Henri Poincare
Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.
— Grace Paley
You can't be conferred with a glory you never configured your mind to come to.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
— Seneca The Younger
Foresight is a virtue and averts many a misfortune.
— Johanna Spyri