Foresight Quotes

129 quotes by 116 authors

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action. — Will Durant
Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future. — Kevin Kline
To undo mistakes is always harder than not to create them originally, but we seldom have foresight. Therefore, we have no choice but to try… — Eleanor Roosevelt
If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon… — Q'orianka Kilcher
What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw. — Euripides
If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past. — John D. Barrow
The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells… — Daniel Gilbert
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand. — Seneca the Younger
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils. — Charles Caleb Colton
I know that there is a reason for everything. Perhaps at the moment that an event occurs we have neither the insight or the foresight… — Brian Weiss
Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep. — Confucius
Forethought spares afterthought. — Amelia Barr
It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance. — Anya Seton
Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on Â… the world of beauty around us. — Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
Vengeance has no foresight. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Vengeance is without foresight. — Napoleon Bonaparte
You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver. — Will Rogers
The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead. — Theodore Roosevelt
Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming during… — Jamais Cascio

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