Best 67 quotes in «foresight quotes» category

She doesn't think it's a good idea to know the future, because you can hardly ever change it, so why suffer twice?

The British have always been madly overambitious, and from one angle it can seem like bravery, but from another it looks suspiciously like a lack of foresight.

Staying close yet just ahead of those you lead reduces the pressure on everyone.

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

The bronze of the door is worthless, alas, to keep me from seeing her who comes by the walks of myrtles to search me out drunk with hatred and crazed by fate.

The mind can never foresee its own advance

The earth's vegetation is part of a web of life in which there are intimate and essential relations between plants the the earth, between plants and other plants, between plants and animals. Sometimes we have no choice but to disturb these relationships, but we should do so thoughtfully, with full awareness that what we do may have consequences remote in time and place.

The problem with preparing for the worst is that that has the power to attract the worst.

The science done by the young Einstein will continue as long as our civilization, but for civilization to survive, we'll need the wisdom of the old Einstein -- humane, global and farseeing. And whatever happens in this uniquely crucial century will resonate into the remote future and perhaps far beyond the Earth, far beyond the Earth

The eyes will be of no use if the mind of a man is totally blind.

There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.

Through adversity, not only are we given an opportunity to discover our inner strength, we are also given the gift of foresight so we can shine a light for others who go through the experience after us.

This here is your inheritance, says the senior partner. Yes, he says, Ludwig, I know, and stows the plan for the bathing house (5.5m long, 3.8m wide, outer wall construction: wood, roof construction: thatch), stows both the plan and the mosquito in his briefcase. On a German shelf, this mosquito, pressed flat between large quantities of paper, will outlast time and times, and one day it might even be petrified, who knows.

Vision is the foresight or forecast or insight into the future. Vision is the picture of one's destiny or accomplishment, or simply what a person is meant to do or become.

Until you are clear nothing will be. The moment you are clear everything will be.

We were created with more than five senses. Apart from the basic five, we also have the gut and the third eye. The gut being the seat of all feeling, and the third eye being the seat of intuition (foresight).

Will, is the precursor of possibility, and the foresight of potential.

when you do great things, think as if you missed the mark by an inch; walk as if you are yet to face the greatest task; talk as if you are yet to have the best preparation for the momentous moment and dream as if you are fighting a battalion of tasks

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.

We ought to live each day as though it were our last day here below. But if I did, alas, I know it would have killed me long ago.

You can't be conferred with a glory you never configured your mind to come to.

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

You know what happens to me!

Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.

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

Forethought spares afterthought.

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

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

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

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

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

It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

I have a European Fanclub that's based in Holland, and I had to have that President of the Fanclub to get me a number of recordings that I hadn't had the foresight to collect myself.

Let us not have puny thoughts. Let us think on a greater scale. Let us not have those of the future decry our smallness of concept and lack of foresight.

It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.

Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.

‎"There’s no such thing as mistakes – only a lack of foresight.

Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight.

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

All the progress in science can’t be used to build a smell receptor as capable as the one that a true leader possesses—to smell trouble or just something fishy.

Changing the currents of Fate, even by accident, comes at a heavy price.

Formative commendation to the author as an altar boy: "You're the only one we've got to anticipates what's coming.

Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin or inmost nature.

Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war)

Humans are often credited with having real foresight, in distinction to the rest of biology which does not. For example, Dawkins compares the 'blind watchmaker' of natural selection with the real human one. 'A true watchmaker has foresight: he designs his cogs and springs, and plans their interconnections, with a future purpose in his mind's eye. Natural selection . . . has no purpose in mind'. I think this distinction is wrong. There is no denying that the human watchmaker is different from the natural one. We humans, by virtue of having memes, can think about cogs, and wheels, and keeping time, in a way that animals cannot. Memes are the mind tools with which we do it. But what memetics shows us is that the processes underlying the two kinds of design are essentially the same. They are both evolutionary processes that give rise to design through selection, and in the process they produce what looks like foresight.

How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it

Every invention began as an imagination.