Foresee Quotes
147 Foresee quotes by 132 unique authors
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We wasters of sorrows! How we stare away into sad endurance beyond them, trying to foresee their end! Whereas they are nothing else than our…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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What I didn't foresee in 2005 was the rise of the post-PC, which are all these tablets now. These are the things that actually will…
— John Romero
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In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must…
— Claude Bernard
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The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now…
— Emily Greene Balch
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I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed…
— Clayton Christensen
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Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you do creative synthesis.…
— David Graeber
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In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just…
— Jane Smiley
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In any problem where an opposing force exists and cannot be regulated, one must foresee and provide for alternative courses. Adaptability is the law which…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.
— Charles Webster Hawthorne
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I tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of…
— Yves Saint Laurent
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I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.
— Henry David Thoreau
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I really thought that I'd be doing Shakespeare, honest to God. I did not foresee the whole action television thing. That was God's joke.
— Nick Offerman
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Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate…
— Marcus Aurelius
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As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee,…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst…
— E. M. Forster
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I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have…
— Evel Knievel
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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own…
— George Orwell
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Like the early days of the Internet, the dawn of personal genomics promises benefits and pitfalls that no one can foresee.
— Steven Pinker
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
— Albert Schweitzer
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You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans…
— Harry S. Truman
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