Foresight Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Foresight Funny Inspirational Love Power
He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences, as must… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
He, who for an ordinary cause, resigns the fate of his patient to mercury, is a vile enemy to the sick; and, if he… — Nathaniel Chapman Copy Share Image
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption. — Vittorio Alfieri Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“We ought to live each day as though it were our last day here below. But if I did, alas, I know it would… — Piet Hein Copy Share Image
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through my time in the military and my deployments, I have recognized the importance of having a Commander in Chief who will not only… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
“Systemic disruption requires us to accept that there may be no measurable data to fully substantiate our understanding of those disruptions. Imaging and exploring… — Roger Spitz Copy Share Image
One way of building private foresight out of public data is looking where others aren't ... if you want to see the future, go… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past. — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Vision is the foresight or forecast or insight into the future. Vision is the picture of one's destiny or accomplishment, or simply what a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Reality looks much more obvious in hindsight than in foresight. People who experience hindsight bias misapply current hindsight to past foresight. They perceive events… — Hersh Shefrin Copy Share Image