Quotes About Foresight

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!

Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

It pays to be prepared.

What is strength without a double share of wisdom?

You can't drive into the future if you are looking into a rear vision mirror.

He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Wise men are not wise at all times.

wisdom ain't seeing what's in your face, but recognizing what's about to come!