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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

It's having no foresight that makes the temporary unbearable. — A. Lynn

Vengeance is without foresight. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Every invention began as an imagination. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight. — Jim Butcher

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

Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel. — George MacDonald

Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise. — Karl Schroeder

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

He'd had the foresight to know that a lot of the savages wear store-bought clothes. — Louis L'Amour

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

Womankind always seems to be able to see a dozen steps into the future, far ahead of what men are able to see. And they have strength where we do not. — Roman Payne

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

The future is not about a single mind that sees or predicts - it is about the many. — Daniel Egger

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.

The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight. — Robin Sharma

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

When the king's ministers lack foresight, The king does not rule for long. — Vishnu Sharma

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

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. — Henry R. Luce

Foresight has been a distinguishing characteristic of all truly great political, religious, and social betterment leaders. — John Mott

In every city you go, you will come across men of different kinds and you are the one to choose where your to belong. — Auliq Ice

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

Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress. — Jamais Cascio

Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business — Henry Ford

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

Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all. — Evan Esar

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

May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far. — Heather Lyons

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

Panic is something that good operations officers plan for. — Tom Clancy

Yet we choose to remember history very selectively, favoring foresight over failure. — Thomas Rid

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

We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past. — John D. Barrow

Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after. — John Ruskin

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

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist. — Ed Koch

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

But hope is only man's mistrust of the clear foresight of his mind. — Paul Valery

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee. — Jack Ma

He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand. — Seneca The Younger

Anyone who does not care of your business and reduce your underestimates He does not know the treasures inside you — Proverb

Stubbs may have envisaged the skeleton inside the horse, but most of us do not — Richard Adams

Foresight is a virtue and averts many a misfortune. — Johanna Spyri