Quotes About Foresight

To go to war, you must always think of, can you win?

It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.

Those who prepare for war get it.

Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.

who wishes to fight must first count the cost

In the art of war, if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the approaching battles. But if you know only yourself and not the enemy, for every victory, there will also be defeat.

To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.

do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat

The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified.

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.

If your enemy has the power to see into the future, make sure you are the author of that future.

Man with a crossbow in the proper position at the proper time's worth a corps of heavy artillery half an hour late and ten miles down the road from where it should be.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory is won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

Never mind of what your enemy thinks of you, relax and think a head of him.

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable and therefore much prepared for has a very good chance of eventually being fought.

There is no such thing as inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.

Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.

To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise.

We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again.But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.