Foresight Quotes

129 quotes by 116 authors

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
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight. — Napoleon Bonaparte
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
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
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
This antitrust thing will blow over. — Bill Gates
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
Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves. — Roger L'Estrange
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
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
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
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
It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable. — James Madison

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