Quotes About Foresight

The wise man strives for awareness. What will happen will happen, and worry will not serve, but anticipation might provide survival.

How was one to foresee and guard against everything?

It's always a good idea to ask yourself, Where is this decision likely to lead? When you do, you can avoid many hassles and mistakes that are otherwise inevitable. By asking this simple question, you can keep your energy directed in areas that will serve you and others well.

our species, with its unique gift of foresight – product of the simulated virtual-reality we call the human imagination

Value the future on a timescale longer than your own.

When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a ventilator: you don't have to have eaten it to know that it would make you throw up.

Know thy enemy… even thy dead enemy, for he may easily resuscitate.

But if you're very clever, I think there's something that can unhinge you if you're not careful.

Samo oni koji vide šta ?e se dogoditi prežive, mora da je to pravilo.

Bet kai esi labai protingas, tai, manau, kas nors gali išmušti tave iš v?ži?, jeigu nepasisaugosi

If he'd been able to imagine it, perhaps he could have saved himself from what was to come. A grief that would reshape his life the way a tsunami reshaped a coastline.

Indeed Empress Dowager Cixi had forseen that her reforms, drastically changing China, could in the end bury her own dynasty.

That was the American way, though. Spend a million dollars rescuing some kid who's fallen down a well, but God forbid you spend a hundred bucks up front to cap the well so the kid never falls down it in the first place.

Spend a million dollars rescuing some kid who's fallen down a well, but god forbid you spend a hundred bucks up front to cap the well so the kid never falls down it in the first place.

The best captain does not plunge headlong Nor is the best soldier a fellow hot to fight. The greatest victor wins without the battle....

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance.

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

Never insult seven men if you're only carrying a six shooter.