Quotes About Foresight

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

When there is no vision, people perish.

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup;... at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

It is easy to be wise after the event.

The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don't see coming.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

If you don't have a vision you're going to be stuck in what you know. And the only thing you know is what you've already seen. But a vision that grows inside of you, a vision that wakes with you, sleeps with you, moves with you, a vision that you can tap into on your worst, worst, worst day, the vision will pull you forward.

The planting is reserved for those who come after us and have the foresight to bring seed. I only clear the ground for them. Clearing ground an piling stones is little enough, but it is better than sitting in idleness.

Whether you have sight or not, I see the future in your eyes. -Beth

All kings are blind. The good ones see this and use more than their eyes to lead.

What, like you didn't think I'd have a second knife? Fucking idiot.

I tried to tell them. Before I left, I tried to tell them it was all going to come to a bad end. But you cannot feed the truth to people. They have to see it themselves if they're going to.

I've always been the type to know that if I'm getting off the track, I know, 'OK, it's time to tighten up.' I feel like I can see it before it comes.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

My job as a mayor is to look 10, 15, 20 years into the future and think not just about my generation, but about my children's generation and my unborn grandchildren and think - what is the kind of economy that they're going to to inherit and what are we doing today to prepare ourselves for that?

Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.

According to my assessment, even if you have many more troops than others, how can that help you to victory?

The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side.

The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.

We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.

We can't be fighting the last war. We have to be preparing to fight the new war.

Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.