Foresight Quotes

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

— Kevin Kline

“Relying on predictions alone is dangerous.”

— Roger Spitz

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

— Anonymous

Childhood is never troubled with foresight.

— Fanny Burney

I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.

— Anonymous

Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep.

— Confucius

“The mind can never foresee its own advance”

— Anonymous

Fear is the mother of foresight.

— Thomas Hardy

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Mentor: Someone whose hindsight can become your foresight

— Foresight

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

— Anya Seton

“We focus on the reasons why we ‘can’t’ at the expense of the far greater reasons why we ‘can’.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on … the world of beauty around us.

— Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

— John Denham

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

— John Stuart Mill

“Panic is something that good operations officers plan for.”

— Tom Clancy

In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a…

— Benjamin Graham

“We ought to live each day as though it were our last day here below. But if I did, alas, I know…

— Piet Hein

The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only because human foresight is much more…

— Joseph Brodsky

“Faith is refusing to believe that the degree to which I understand something is the degree to which it exists.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

— Max Hastings

Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.

— John Ortberg

“By imagination and reason we turn experience into foresight; we become the creators of our future, and cease to be the slaves…

— Will Durant

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

— Margaret Atwood

At 15, you have to decide if you're going to go into professional dancing and really pursue it. I just a) knew…

— Elisabeth Moss

Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach -…

— Nick Bostrom

There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in…

— Ezra Taft Benson

All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called…

— John Boyle O'Reilly

It would have been the easiest thing in the world for us to build those emplacements under the guise of something totally…

— Fidel Castro

I credit Google for having the foresight to identify threats to its main business of selling advertising against search results. The potential…

— Barry Ritholtz

not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor…

— Freya Stark

Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently…

— Richard Dawkins

“We tend to think of imagination and foresight like we are prone to think of life (sometimes) -- as an inscrutable flash…

— M

For three decades and longer we have been developing the ideas, science, and technological wherewithal to build a sustainable society. The public…

— David W. Orr

At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer…

— Ansel Adams

“It's not unfortunate that people aren't genuine; what's unfortunate is that insincere people try to act sincere and in doing so, mislead…

— C. JoyBell C

I absolutely have no foresight. I used to think I had a lot when I was younger. I worked really hard in…

— Kristen Stewart

“If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having…

— Benjamin Franklin

As a soldier, I've served with the most brave people in an institution that's built on integrity, honor, and duty. This is…

— Tulsi Gabbard