Quotes About Foresight

I have always known a thing before it happens.

To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.

A man's eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger.

A man with deep far-sightedness will survey both the beginning and the end of a situation and continually consider its every facet as important.

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

From the example of the past, the man of the present acts prudently so as not to imperil the future.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.

No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.

I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.

If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.

An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."

overestimating the intelligence of the enemy is, if anything, more dangerous than underestimating it.

I created opportunities, in case we might need them.

You know, now, the decision I made. Which was to suffer for the greater good. Because society will go astray if there are not those who, like me, imagine many outcomes. Let those scenarios run rampant in their minds. Anticipate the worst that could happen. Take steps to prevent it. If the price of that—the price of having a head full of dark imaginings—is personal suffering, then so be it.

A great warrior must always search for the enemy's intentions and guard his own.

They could not see what they could not imagine

If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not because we lacked the brain power to protect ourselves but because we lacked the foresight. The dominant species that replaces us in post-apocalyptic Earth just might wonder, as they gaze upon our mounted skeletons in their natural history museums, why large-headed Homo sapiens fared no better than the proverbially pea-brained dinosaurs.

You know it's true… Every disaster movie begins with a scientist being ignored.

If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not because we lacked the brain power to protect ourselves but because we lacked the foresight.

Americans lived in the moment, without history and thus without prophecy.

There is no avoiding war, it can only be postponed to the advantage of your enemy.