Foresight Quotes
129 quotes by 116 authors
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There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves…
— U Thant
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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting…
— Victor Cherbuliez
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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The essential factor of military success is speed, that is taking advantage of others' unpreparedness or lack of foresight, their failure to catch up, going…
— Sun Tzu
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Acknowledging the physical realities of our planet does not mean a dismal future of endless sacrifice. In fact, acknowledging these realities is the first step…
— Jimmy Carter
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Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a…
— Frederick The Great
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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…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing. With…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I think only an idiot can be an atheist. We must admit that there exists an incomprehensible power or force with limitless foresight and knowledge…
— Christian B. Anfinsen
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This antitrust thing will blow over.
— Bill Gates
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But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e…
— Robert Burns
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Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.
— Roger L'Estrange
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Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is right that the…
— Bernardino Ramazzini
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By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected in a written…
— Thurgood Marshall
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It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle to object to…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.
— James Madison
Who Wrote These Foresight Quotes
116 authors contributed a total of 129 Foresight Quotes, led by these top contributors: